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sideration the great pressure of wind on a house 90 to 100 feet long, 

 stability is a matter of great importance." I can, from personal ex- 

 amination, testify to the great merit in every way of these houses 

 recommended by Mr. Pearson. They are described in detail in Mr. 

 Pearson's little book. 



Edifices used in Horticulture. 



The edifices required in horticulture are chiefly the head gardener's 

 house, the journeyman gardener's lodge, the fruit-room, the seed and 

 herb-room, the root-cellar, the tool-house, and the potting and work- 

 ing sheds. 



The gardener's house, wherever there are many plant structures, 

 should be as near the garden as possible ; but it should by no means 

 form an object in the scenery of the garden. Like what the house of 

 every man ought to be, the occupant should possess it as his castle for 

 the time being. It may be wholly or partially veiled by trees ; but 

 within whatever boundary it is placed perfect liberty should prevail ; 

 and this cannot be the case where the inmates are either constrained 

 to remain in-doors, or when they go out are forced into contact with 

 their superiors, to the annoyance of both parties. Besides a kitchen 

 and sleeping-rooms, the gardener's house should contain at least one 

 good parlour. All the fixtures and principal articles of furniture 

 should be the property of the proprietor of the garden, and valued 

 to the gardener on his entering on the situation, and again valued on 

 his leaving it ; he paying any difference in value which may have 

 been occasioned by use. This is not the general practice, though it is 

 fast spreading, and deservedly so, because it must occasion less pain 

 to a considerate master to part with a married servant under such 

 circumstances, and less inconvenience to the gardener when he leaves 

 his place, without perhaps knowing where he shall find another. 



The journeyman gardener's lodge, and all the other edifices men- 

 tioned, are generally included in the sheds behind the different plant- 

 structures ; because they tend to keep the latter warm, and because 

 the high back wall of the hothouses existing at any rate, they can be 

 erected there more economically than anywhere else. It has been 

 observed, however, by a number of gardeners, both in England and 

 Scotland, that living-rooms at the back of hothouses are not healthy ; 

 and that those that are situated at the back of stoves are still more 

 unhealthy than those at the back of greenhouses or other plant-struc- 

 tures where less heat is required. Damp and want of ventilation are 

 the probable causes; for which reason we should recommend the 

 journeyman-gardener's rooms to be separated from the back wall of 

 the plant-house against which they are built by a vacuity, commu- 

 nicating above and below with the open air. The floor should be 

 raised at least a foot above the general surface, and should have an 

 ample vacuity below it, which on the one side may communicate with 

 the vacuity between the walls, and on the other with the open air. 

 This will insure a current of air through both these vacuities, which 



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