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 978 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. and contrivances for watering, ought, in like manner, never to be displayed in a conser- vatory ; nor, indeed, any thing which is likely to create an allusion to, or a comparison with, a common-place garden green-house. 1 958. Tlie Architectural Style of Conservatories attached to dwellings, must obviously be governed by that of the house to which they belong ; and there are few appendages which afford better opportunities for displaying the grander features of every style of building ; such as columns, piers, arches, &c. The elevation of a conservatory in the Grecian style may be composed of square columns set on a plinth, and surmounted by an architrave, frieze, and cornice ; a Roman or Italian elevation may consist of an arcade, similarly placed, with a cornice and blocking course, or parapet ; and a Gothic elevation may be formed of a series of pointed windows, with or without buttresses, or small angular towers terminating in finials, between. 1959. One of the simplest and most economical Descriptions of Conservatories in the Gothic Style is described in vol. vi. of the Gardener's Magazine. It was built by a common village bricklayer and carpenter, in the neighbourhood of Nottingham ; and, though forty-three feet long, and eighteen feet wide, the cost was little more than £250. Fig. 1725 is the ground plan, of which a a a are three doors, each dividing in the middle. These doors are hung upon Collinge's patent hinges ; and are lifted on and off with the greatest ease. The letters b b are Gothic lights or windows, resembling the Kfm^ doors. The letters c c are cast-iron pipes, conducting the rain water from the roof gutters into the drains d d, which carry it into the tank /. The letters e e are beds containing soil of the quality best suited to their respective plants. The tank / is twelve feet square by ten feet deep, arched over, and covered with a movable flagstone at the mouth, supplying the pump g, through the bottom of the trough of which, the waste water is again returned into the tank ; m is a glass door opening into a library ; and n a similar door opening into a drawingroom. Fig. 1726 is a sec- 1726 lion of the main beam, forty-four feet long, extending through the centre of the build- ing, upon which the inner ribs and lights rest. The gutters lined with lead, h, are cut out of the solid beam, and fall each way to the three hollow cast-iron pillars, c c c, standing over the centre drain. Fig. 1727 is a cross section of the roof, in which 1 1 II are the rafters on which the lights rest, exactly after the same manner as those of the common cucumber frame ; with the addi- tion of a slip of wood, five inches wide, extending from the ridge to the gutters along the rafters, to cover the outer woodwork of the lights, after they are returned to their places in September. Without this the rain water would find admission down the openings of the sides of the lights. These slips of wood are essential to the dryness of the house ; and if the two or three screws with which they are fixed are well greased, they may be readily taken off from such lights as are removed during the summer. The three lead gutters, h h h, should be wide enough in the centre to admit of a person walking along them ; c is one of the cast-iron pipes, forming a pillar nine feet high, supporting the longitudinal beam, and having five small wooden rods round it, to train climbing plants ujion. The ventilating shutter, I x, works upon two pivots, and is raised by a wooden rod, which also props it open. 1727 I m m