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has been attempted to prove that Mr. Hcreman's houses were " fixtures" 

 in the legal sense of the term, and in every case the attempt has failed. 

 They are as truly portable as common garden frames ; they rest on the 

 ground, or lean against walls, and instead of being fixed to the latter by 

 hooks and eyes, as described by one of our contemporaries, there is not so 

 much approach in them to the nature of a fixture as hooks and eyes might 

 be alleged to aff'ord. But while we are devising plans for building 07i, 

 instead of in, the soil, and of heating without necessity of sub -superficial 

 foundations, it would appear a desirable thing for the gardening com- 

 munity to bestir themselves for such a reform of the law as would insti- 

 tute a fair division of rights between tenant and freeholder. For a man to 



pursue a course of improvement involving great outlays, and then to hand 

 over the whole to the freeholder on the expiration of his term, is neither 

 iust nor politic. It may be said he undertakes those improvements 

 knowin"- the result. Yes. But if the result can be averted, how much 

 greater inducem.ent is there to the improvement of properties to an extent 

 beneficial to the freeholder without being ruinous to the tenant. Legal 

 rio-ht and moral right are often widely sundered, and we need, for the 

 dA-elopment of the resources of the country, for the encouragement of 

 industry, and for the reasonable enjoyment of life on rented properties, a 

 modification of the code, Avhich is all in favour of one class at the expense 



of another. ,t , i 



To encourage the erection of portable houses, we have pubhshed 

 several jjlans and descriptions in former pages of this work. We now 

 have the pleasure of adding to the number, figures of the construction of 

 the house described at page 267 of last year's volume. These explain 

 themselves sufficiently to render it unnecessary to accompany them with 

 any further details, and as they are drawn to scale, any one skilful enough 



