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troduced into this country. But a few the front wall, and a window on each 

 years since it was scarcely known as an side of the centre door. Strong beams 

 esculent — now it is in very general use. ! are thrown across from front to back, 



" There are six or seven varieties, 

 between which there is not much real 

 difference ; the common red is equal to 

 any. 



" Cultivation same as directed for the 

 Melongena, or Egg Plant. It is, how- 

 ever, more free in growth, and will pro- 

 duce fruit tolerably early, when sown 

 on the open border. 



" On the approach of frost pull up 

 some of the plants, (root and all,) which 

 are well laden with fruit, and hang them 



and strong planks laid on them, which 

 form a useful loft for placing mats, 

 stakes, laths for tally making, brooms, 

 nets, canvas for covering and shading, 

 &c. &c. Within two feet of the roof, 

 against the back wall, is placed a row 

 of pegs the whole length of the shed, 

 for hanging the long-handled tools, such 

 as grass and leaf rakes, long-handled 

 Dutch hoes and iron rakes, &c.; on the 

 next row of pegs, the whole length of 

 the shed, are placed the various kinds 



up in a dry, airy apartment. In this | of draw hoes, tan forks, dung forks and 



manner it may be continued in perfeC' 

 tion for some time longer than the natu- 

 ral season." — Rural Reg. 



TONQUIX BEAN. Dipterix. 



TOOL-HOUSE. Upon this too much 

 neglected garden edifice, the editor has 

 been favoured by Mr. Barnes, of Bicton 

 Gardens, with the following excellent 

 remarks: — "Have a place for every- 

 thing, and everything in its place ;■ 



prongs, strong forks for digging and 

 surface stirring, spades and shovels of 

 various kinds, pickaxes, mattocks and 

 bills, dung drags, edging shears, &c.; 

 on a third row of pegs, still lower, are 

 placed the water pots, all numbered, 

 with initials as well, thus — B, G — 45, 

 or 60, whatever the number may run 

 to ; underneath those is a row more of 

 pegs, for placing the noses of the water 



kept in good condition, and at all times pots — thus the back wall is furnished, 

 put away clean ; — for omission of which The front wall, half way, is furnished 

 have rules and fines placed in each of with shelves for placing shreds and 



the tool-houses, regularly enforced, and 

 payment demanded for each fine on the 

 labourers' pay-day. At Bicton, a book 

 is kept for entering each fine, and a 

 Beparate account given of each fine, and 

 for what, or why, it was enforced; an- 

 nually. Lady Rollc doubles the amount 

 so collected, and if good order has been 



nails, rope yarn, tallies, flower pegs, 

 whetstones, rubber or scythe-stones, 

 and many other small articles. Under- 

 neath those shelves are pegs for hang- 

 ing the hammers, axes, saws, hatchets, 

 mallets and stake-drivers, trowels, hand- 

 forks, reels and lines, hedge-clipping 

 shears, scythes, chisels, the various 



kept, and only a small sum so collected, sizes of one-handed crane-necked hoes, 



her ladyship trebles the amount. I add crowbars, mops, hair-brushes and 



my own mite, and each foreman theirs, brooms, and various other articles, 



as a sort of compound for any matter ' The scythes are hung up over the end 



that may have slipped our memories, beam, and on the other side without 



&c.; the amount is then placed in the shelves the hand-barrows are placed; 



Savings Bank, as a reserve sum in case birch and heath brooms, both round and 



of illness, &c. We have the same order fan-shaped, that are in daily use; and 



and regulation kept in each tool-shed, various other articles. The garden rules 



that is to say, the tool-shed of each de- are hung in a conspicuous place ; also 



partment — that I need here describe in the tool-house. Every tool is to be 



only one. The tool-shed of the hot- put into its proper or allotted place, 



house and flower-garden department is every night, thoroughly cleansed; any 



a lean-to shed at the back of a hot-house, 

 substantially built, and covered with 

 slate: — length, fifty-four feet; width, 

 thirteen feet; height at back, fifteen 

 feet; and height in front, nine feet; 



omission of which subjects the defaulter 

 to a fine. Each tool-house is under the 

 same system. We have separate wheel- 

 barrow sheds ; sheds for placing soils in 

 the dry, arranged in old casks; varieties 



paved all through with Yorkshire flag- ' of sand, pebbles, and flints, for potting 

 stones, which are neatly swept up every purposes, with lofts over for flower pot 

 night, the last thing, and washed every stowage ; — a shed for the liquid manure 

 Saturday, thoroughly. There is a door casks, which is one of the most essen- 

 at each end, and one in the centre of tial and valuable of all. A shod for 



