ABSTRACT
Much as the modern house builder has been reviled for the lath and plaster dwellings, which are to spring mushroom-like from the ground in suburban neighbourhoods, it must at least be confessed that he has gone out of his way to provide two almost unheard-of luxuries in middle-class dwellings of a few years back – the bath-room and the conservatory. A capital arrangement of the various beds and stages for the display of pot plants leaves a very large space in the centre open for promenading; the angles are filled with tastefully selected groups of plants, and the light iron supports to the framework of the roof are ornamented by training choice creepers upon them, and by hanging baskets filled with flowering or other plants from the centre or other available positions. Coloured glass, again, is an accessory to buildings erected especially for horticultural purposes too frequently overlooked.
