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JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ Jons 23, 1870. 



The sill to be of oak or Memel fir, 4 inches by 3, and splayed 

 on the outside. The front plate to be of Swede fir, 4 inches 

 by 3, notched on the top of the posts half an inch, and well 

 nailed on. Ridge piece, 7 inches by 1. The bars for glass to 

 be of deal, 3^ inches by lj, as shown, fig. 5, plate 3 ; the end 

 bars on roof to be rebated and chamfered on one side only. 

 The doors to have solid rebated frames, ?,\ inches by 2, and 

 oak sills ; 1 ; inch panelled, and square doors, hang with 3-inch 

 butt hinges, and fitted with 4-inch locks, with two bolts ; 6-inch 

 japanned iron hooks to secure doors partially open, and oak 

 posts, and 3-inch hooks to secure them wide open. The end 

 lights over top of doors to be of deal, 1} inch thick, hung with 

 2-inch butt hinges, and fitted with iron stays with holes and 

 pins. 



The top lights to be of deal, 1} inch thick, worked according 

 to fig. 3, plate 3, with 2-inch butts, curved iron stays screwed 

 on, lj-inch screw pulleys, and patent lines. The front lights 

 to be worked according to figs. 1,2, and 4, plate 3 ; to be of deal, 

 1$ inch thick, 2J-inch top rail and styles, and 3-inch bottom 

 rail, hung at the centres with iron pivots, and fitted with a 

 bar and rods as shown. 6 is a 1-inch iron bar running half 

 the length of the house, fitting in staples driven into each post, 

 but turning easily in it; 7 is a J.inch iron rod rivetted into 

 the bar, and running in an eye let into the light at the top rail, 

 one to each light ; 8, a crank fitted at the ends of the bars 

 next the door, with a hole and pin at the end; 9, a post let 

 into the ground with holes for the pin in the crank ; by lower- 

 ing or raising the crank the whole of the front lights attached 

 to the bar are opened or shut at once, as shown by the dotted 

 lines. Iron rods }-inch diameter placed horizontally at 9 inches 

 apart, are to be fixed to the back wall, with iron pins and eyes 

 at a distance of 4 inches from the wall, and 4 feet apart hori- 

 zontally ; an iron bar, five-eighths of an inch by three-six- 

 teenths, is to be screwed to the bars for glass the whole length of 

 the house, at half the length of the bar. The glass to be 16-oz. 

 sheet glass, in squares 1 foot deep ; each pane on roof to be 

 bradded at the bottom, and to have a half-inch lap, that on 

 the vertical surfaces to be butt-jointed, and the whole to be 

 well puttied in, and back puttied. All wood and iron work to 

 have three coats of white paint, one coat to be put on before 

 glazing. To fix to the eaves a 2-inch zinc gutter, and convey 

 the water to the tubs (jigs. 5), and with zinc overflow pipes to 

 the outside. 



If a back wall has to be provided, it may be either of brick 

 or of wood ; if the former it should be 9 inches thick, built 

 hollow on edge, and all headers to go through the wall, the top 

 to have a course of slate inserted over the ridge piece, the 

 surfaces to be neatly pointed, and the inside to have two coats 

 of lime white. If the latter, the sill to be of oak, 4 inches by 2 ; 

 quarters, braces, and head, of fir, 4 inches by 2, and three- 

 quarter-inch deal weather-boarding lapped half an inch, painted 

 three coats on outside, and two coats lime-whited on the inside. 



SPECIFICATION" FOR SPAN-ROOFED HOUSE. 



The specification for the "lean-to" house will answer for 

 that with the span-roof, except with regard to the following : — 



The oak posts to have oak spurs, and sills 4 inches by 2 

 framed to them ; the flat iron bar five-eighths by three-six- 

 teenths, to be screwed also to the upright bars at both ends of 

 house, and secured at the ends to the plate and door posts. The 

 two trelliseo for the Vines to be formed of half-inch iron rods 

 for uprights, secured at the top to the rafters, and at the 

 bottom to oak posts driven into the ground, with horizontal 

 rods, as specified for the " lean-to " house, tied to the uprights 

 with wire. 



If brick footings are put under the oak sill, instead of using 

 oak posts let into the ground, the uprights between the front 

 lights may be of fir, but iu this case the roof must be tied to- 

 gether at every 8 feet with iron tie rods, or by the iron rods 

 recommended by Mr. Pearson, in his little book on the 

 " Orchard House." The front, lights in this case will require 

 only one crank on each side.— J. Colson, Architect, Winchester. 



Mr. Broome's successor, and now that the road in front of the 

 offices in Crown Office Row is finished and the railings put 

 up, the present gardener has displayed great taste in laying 

 out the gardens. A new bed for the annual Chrysanthemum 

 show has been formed, extending from one end of the railings 

 to the other. Plants inserted in the newly-made bed look 

 remarkably strong and healthy, and have already attained a 

 height of nearly 6 or 7 inches. 



The garden now covers a considerably greater space towards 

 the Thames Embankment ; in fact it covers the crown of the 

 Metropolitan Railway, and there is now a clear space of 550 feet 

 from north to south. A handsome mound formed by 2000 loads 

 of earth has been raised, sloping to the Inns of Court Volun- 

 teer practice ground ; and numerous fancy beds stocked with 

 Pelargoniums, Fuchsias, Calceolarias, Verbenas, and other 

 plants have been formed. The side grounds at the back of the 

 chambers in Paper Buildings and Harcourt Buildings have also 

 been planted with great taste and skill, and the garden promises 

 to be a far more favourite resort to the citizons of London than 

 even in former years. — Charles T. Fowlek. 



The Temple Gabdens.— At the recent visit of H.R.H. the 

 Princess Louise to open the new hall of the Inner Temple, 

 these gardens were in an unsightly form, owing to the great 

 alterations then going on in widening the carriage way on the 

 north-side frontage in Crown Office Row. To effect this, about 

 15 feet of the gardens bad to be taken away, entirely destroy- 

 ing the great Chrysanthemum bed, where this autumnal flower 

 used to draw annually so many thousands of visitors. Since 

 the death of Mr. Broome, Mr. Newton has been appointed 



GROWING CELEEY IN BEDS. 



As the cultivation of Celery in beds has been spoken of in 

 terms that would lead to the impression that it is a new idea, 

 it may be of service to the general reader to know that it has 

 been practised for a great many yearB, possibly ever since the 

 vegetable was subjected to cultivation, and is still adopted in 

 most places where large quantities of Celery are wanted. The 

 planting and management, however, differ in some respects 

 from the method described by Mr. CaBtle, vol. xvii., page 399, 

 and it is, therefore, possible that some grower who haB 

 adopted the latter system, may have abandoned it in con- 

 sequence of the trouble in earthing-up ; but the mode I have 

 adopted for thirty years and more, and which was known and 

 practised years before, presents greater facilities for earthing-up. 



Assuming that there is a plot of ground available for the 

 purpose of forming a bed or series of beds, we generally make 

 our beds 5 feet wide, and as long as the Bpace will permit. The 

 soil is thrown out about C inches deep, heaped up on the sides, 

 and a liberal allowance of manure is dug into the bed some 

 time before planting. When the bed is ready for planting, the 

 plants are placed in rows across the bed, not longitudinally ; 

 the advantage of the rows across being in the greater ease with 

 which the enrlhing-up is effected. 



In general, we plant much more thickly than where very 

 large Celery is desired ; but in many places those having 

 this salad to prepare for table strip the heads down to very 

 limited proportions, by taking oft" several of the outer stalks 

 until only the centre is left, and then whatever credit there 

 may be in having Celery of large growth, it is entirely lost 

 sight of, and number, not extraordinary eize, is the require- 

 ment of the times. This state of things renders it necessary 

 to grow a larger number of plantB, and there can be no question 

 the bed system produces a greater number in a certain space of 

 ground than can be obtained in rows some distance apart, and 

 I have never seen any perceptible difference in the quality or 

 keeping properties of the Celery. A larger head can, no doubt, 

 be obtained on the single-row system, but as already stated, 

 this is not of so much importance in many private places as it 

 is with the grower for market. 



A champion of the bed system has described, in page 415 of 

 the same volume, his mode of growing Celery, but as his cul- 

 tivation differs from mine, your readers may judge for them- 

 selves. Both plans have their merits. In " J. W.'s " case he 

 employs his beds as a shelter for bedding plants late in spring; 

 with mo it is seldom I can have the ground intended for Celery 

 at liberty until shortly before it has to be planted ; early Peas, 

 Potatoes, late Broccoli, or some other crop not being off the 

 ground until it is nearly time to plant the Celery. I therefore 

 rarely dig so deep a bed as "J. W." recommends, but usually 

 make mine 5 feet wide, and instead of four or five rows longi- 

 tudinally, the beds are always planted with cross rows from a 

 foot to 15 inches apart, the plants being from 6 to 9 inches 

 from each other in the row. These distances are much closer 

 than those often adopted, but if all the other conditions for 

 growth be favourable, it will be found that very good Celery 

 may be grown in this way. 



Some one will probably ask, " How about the earthing-up ?" 

 To this question I can answer that I believe by the mode we 

 adopt there is really less labour than in the usual way of 

 earthing-up Celery in single rows. Our method is this :— 



