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and Black Barbarossa, planted inside, on a well-made border, the outside 

 border being reserved to be completed by sections as the roots run, thus 

 giving the roots new material to feed on every successive season until 

 the border is completed. An elaborate system of air-drains intersects 

 the borders from the front, and by means of caps on the inside venti- 

 lators, a stagnant atmosphere can at all times be avoided. 



The heating of the whole range is done by three boilers, with a plen- 

 tiful supply of four-inch pipes attached, hot-water pans for giving off 

 moisture at will fixed all along the pipes, to be used at the necessary 

 seasons. 



The system of ventilation is well worth seeing, being on what might be 

 termed the sirnultaneoiis frinciplc, so that one man can reduce or extend 

 the entire ventilation in a very short space of time over the whole range ; 

 and to those engaged in fruit forcing the advantages of this system will 

 be fully appreciated during the vicissitudes of a spring or early sum- 

 mer day. 



Behind this range of glass are commodious sheds for storing garden 

 produce in winter, mushroom house, fruit rooms, etc. ; and near by, on 

 a favorable site, is about being erected, what should never be neglected on 

 a place of any pretensions, viz., a good gardener's cottage, for it is only 

 right that the man who has the ability to superintend a garden deserv- 

 ing the name, should not only be liberally remunerated, but have a com- 

 fortable home for the " gudewife " and " bairns." Bachelor gardeners 

 are generally poor hands, and should not be encouraged. 



Near the kitchen garden is an orchard of thrifty apple and pear trees, 

 in full bearing, interspersed with rows of native grape vines, loaded 

 with fast-ripening fruit, and giving every evidence of good cultivation. 

 In an enclosed corner is what gardeners know as the frame ground., 

 with numerous ranges of cold pits, and the resenx stock of peaches 

 and nectarines in pots, ready for use in the orchard house. 



Leaving the culinary department, we now turn to the ornamental 

 grounds ; and the manner in which the natural beauties of the locality 

 have been handled does credit to the scientific skill that has effected it. 

 The walks and drives are numerous and well planned ; the short grass 

 kept as lawns, etc., covering an undulating extent of nearly fifty acres ; 



