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Title: The amateur's greenhouse and conservatory : a handy guide to the construction and management of planthouses, and the selection, cultivation, and improvement of ornamental greenhouse and conservatory plants
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890
Subjects: Greenhouses Greenhouse plants Gardening
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ions, and seasoned with some little knowledgeof the subject—sufficient, let us hope, for the purpose. A disquisition on the nice distinctions that might be drawn AND CONSEEVATOBr. 3 between the meanings of such terms as stove, hothouse, greenhouse, and conservatory, would serve no usefulpurpose. They are all plant houses, and depend for their dis-tinctions quite as much on the furnishing and the managementas upon structure and iittings. A house may be heated to 80°or 90° to-daj for the comfort of orchids, and be called a stove.If we remove the orchids and put pelargoniums in theirplace, and lower the temperature to 10° or 50°, it becomes agreenhouse. We have but to enlarge it, and introduce camel-lias and acacias, and give the whole aflair a somewhat elegantaspect, and it becomes a conservatory. These several termsare convenient because they refer to different things. Butthere is no occasion to define them precisely, and we mightindeed go wrong were we to attempt the definition.
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THE CEIMSOX-tEAVED PAXIT. (Welfia regia.) THE AMATEUa 8 GEEENHOUSE CHAPTER I. THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PLANT HOUSE. Before we begin to construct, we must determine on thesite. Now, a bold beginning may be made by the assertionthat any site will suit for a plant house, provided the ownerwill furnish it with plants adapted to the site, and resolvenever to make selections without first considering the suit-ability of the house for their protection. Suppose we have ahigh damp wall facing north, and wish to cover in the space infront of it with glass for plant-growing. It may be a prudentproceeding to erect there a substantial lean-to, and to constructagainst the face of the wall inside the house a rockery, andplant the rockery with ferns, and make a lovely scene rich inbotanical interest. Or suppose the wall faces south and theposition is particularly dry and hot, we may still proceed tocover the space in front with a lean-to, and make a border nextthe wall for climbers that love sun and a

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