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                          PRE F ACE.
 9OTANY, an elegant and interesting study, has lately become a favourite
 pursuit among the higher classes of the community; and the attention to
 forcing of plants, flowers, and fruits, for the table, has increased the
demand
 for Horticultural Buildings of every description. The author therefore
 hopes this Collection of Plans now offered to the Public, will be found
an
 acceptable production, as various specimens of the different kinds are given,
 suitable to most situations; viz. Green-houses, Houses for forcing Flowers,
 Roses, &c., Conservatories, Pineries, Peacheries, and Vineries; also
an
 example of an Aquarium, the only one ever built on such a construction.
 This Collection will be particularly acceptable, as it exhibits Plans of
such
 Houses only as have been actually built, and as they are dispersed through-
 out different parts of the kingdom, noblemen and gentlemen, in their several
 npighbourhoods, have an opportunity of appealing to the buildings them-
 selves, and of making an examination of what merits they really possess.
 These buildings have chiefly been executed from the author's own designs;
 the others from designs of W. T. AITON, Esq., his Majesty's Gardener at
 Kew and Kensington.
   No speculative or experimental designs are here shown; but such only
as have been actually built, and which have been found to answer the
purposes for which they were constructed.  No stronger proof can be
offered for the verity of this assertion, than a desire that the buildings
should be investigated.
   The Plans now made public have been selected from a great number,
which have been executed by the author, who, in the course of a long
experience, both in designing and executing buildings of this description,
has been enabled to make many valuable improvements in their construc-
tion; and he begs leave to appeal to the noble and respectable characters