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and enables the work to be more speedily carried on. 

 Where it cannot be so arranged, it should be formed 

 at one end or side of the kitchen-garden, in the posi- 

 tion most iitted to facilitate the various necessary 

 operations. 



A general range of forcing-houses may be formed so 

 as to have an imposing and ornamental effect; but 

 when these are placed in the kitchen-garden, the latter 

 must be so arranged as in some degree to correspond 

 ■with them. When they are above the character of 

 mere forcing-houses, and particularly when plant-houses 

 form a portion of the range, they should be erected, 

 not in the kitchen-garden, but in some neighboring 

 portion of the ornamental grounds, such as a small 

 flower-garden or in a section of the lawns. In this 

 way a good transitionary link can be established be- 

 tween the kitchen-gardens and the pleasure-grounds. 

 Care, however, must be taken to prevent the smoking 

 chimneys from becoming offensively visible, and to 

 screen and inclose the necessary sheds and roads lead- 

 ing to them — objects frequently not easy to be secured 

 in detached situations. Our purpose in this volume 

 does not lead us to enter into detailed statements in 

 regard to the erection of forcing or plant-houses, and 

 to the methods of heating them. On these subjects 

 we may refer our readers for information to any of the 

 recent works which treat professedly on horticulture, 

 such as Loudon's " Encyclopaedia of Gardening," or to 

 the article on Horticulture in the " Encyclopaedia Bri- 

 tannica," or to the reprint of that article in "Neill's 

 Gardening." The latter, which we are permitted by 

 the publishers to say we aided in getting up, particu- 

 larly the department now referred to, will be found 



