London exhibited in 1852, - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...it should be References to Syon Conservatories. The centre division hai 17 four-inch cast-iron pipes below the paths and all round. I. The steam from the main. Condensed water outlet. The two square divisions, adjoining the centre one, have 14 four-inch pipes round three sides of each. 3. Steam entrance. 4. Vapour valves, for steaming the house. 5. Condensed water outlet. 6. Steam entrance. Tbe other curved divisions have five pipe In front, and lour at the back of each division. SYON FLOWER GARDEN. 7-Vapour valves. 8. Condensed water outlet. The end divisions, forming the extreme wings of the range, have eight pipes all round. 9. Steam entrance. 10. Vapour valves. 11. Condensed water outlet. 12. Main. 13. Miiin from the boiler con ducted in the wall. 14. Boiler house. 15. Boilers. 16. Coal shed. 17. Chimney, divided into four flues, to cut the column of smoke. Flotcer Garden. IB. Compartments of beds (for low flowers), edged with box upon gravel, and circumscribea by a grass verge, planted with dwarf standard roses. 19. Large vase and pedestal, upon a grass plot. 20. Small vases, on circular grass plots. 21. Small junipers. 22. Irish yew. 23. Cv press. 24. Auracaria imbricata. 25. Yucca glorioa. 26. Hybrid rhododendrons. 27. Fountain. 28. Standard roses. 29. Rock, &c. kept as high as it is, the various houses would be by no means ill adapted for growing and preserving plants. The two end portions of the building, which nas many glass partitions, are of a somewhat square figure, and are used as conservatories, for containing such large plants as orange-trees, camellias, brugmansias, &c, with a few showy flowers set among them to create a little gaiety. They are without stages, and the plants stand about in groups on a paved floor. In the front of th...