This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
Messrs. Weeks, the eminent horticultural architects,, of King's Road, Chelsea, having recently completed the erection of a bouse, termed a "Winter Gardeu," we were invited to inspect the same, and feel bound to add our testimony to its perfect adaptability to the purpose intended, as well as to the good taste displayed in its plan and construction. The erection is entered through a conservatory from the King's Road, and covers a space of about twenty-five yards by thirty. On one side is a large stove, and on the other a greenhouse, with seed and waiting-rooms in front. The Winter Garden is a very ornamental building, and the interior space is laid out in four raised beds of considerable size, with a circular one in the centre; the latter is now (August 20th) occupied by Japan Lilies, with a fine specimen of Araucaria excelsa in the middle, and the four corner beds are filled with Camellias, Orange trees. Azaleas, Fuchsias, Humea elegant, Agapanthas, scarlet and variegated Geraniums, etc. The beds are each raised a foot or more above the level of the floor, the sides banked up with turf, and edged with Lycopodium. The spaces between the beds afford plenty of room for walking about, and the construction of the building is Such as to give the whole a light, and remarkably cheerful appearance.
The Winter Garden, together with all the house in this nursery, is heated by one boiler, supplying about 7000 feet of pipe, and capable of maintaining any desired amount of heat at a very low cost.

The inspection of Messrs. Weeks' Winter Garden will afford much gratification to every one interested in the progress of horticulture; as a proof we have but to point out that it has already been visited by a great number of practical gardeners, the principal nurserymen, and many of the nobility and gentry. - London Florist.
 
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