An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 1002
usualconservatory temperature is wanted. Not only is the original cost,and the expense of repairs, considerably reduced by using fiames ofsmall dimensions, but the risk of breakage from frost is completelyavoided when the laps do not exceed one fourth of an inch. Though this house is forty-three… … should be made on the outside, and far below the foimdation of the house all round;small openings being left in the foundation walls, to allow the water to pass off freelyfrom the bottom of the beds. It is often more advisable to have the plants in potsplunged in the soil, than to plant them in the…
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