Winter Garden
A term usually employed to denote a very large, cool, glass structure, from which the frost is merely excluded, the interior being occupied by subjects insufficiently hardy to withstand our climate outside during the winter. A Winter Garden is generally of sufficient size to allow of the centre part of the interior being laid out in walks and large beds. The latter are planted with all the stronger-growing occupants that cannot be properly accommodated in pots. Amongst them Himalayan Rhododendrons may be specially mentioned, as their foliage is attractive at all seasons, and their flowers in spring and summer are amongst the most beautiful; Camellias, Australian Acacias, and other hard-wooded plants of a like description, Araucarias, many Tree Ferns, Palms, and any good plants that only require a little protection in winter. A Winter Garden, if treated as a conservatory, would admit of the introduction of all greenhouse plants in their seasons on the shelves around, while the central beds might be planted with some of the subjects mentioned above, according to the available height and space. Tea Roses may be trained to pillars, also on the roof, if convenient, and numerous beautiful conservatory climbers succeed well when similarly situated and kept tied.