4«12 Description of a Design for the 



and other animals, niii^ht be introckiccd, should it ever be deemed ad- 

 visable to conil)iiie a zoological establishment with this {jarden. 



L, American garden. The surrounding border is for a collection of single 

 specimens of American and other peat-earth shrubs, trees, and herba- 

 ceous plants, and the interior compartments are for propagating plants 

 for sale. 



M, Flower-garden. The surrounding border for a collection of single 

 specimens of roses, dwarfs, and standards, and of the most showy com- 

 mon garden-soil border flowers ; the interior for bulbs and other florists' 

 flowers, georginas, stocks, &c., and other annuals for sale. 



N, Orchard. The surrounding border, and the margins of the alleys, for 

 a complete collection of single specimens of fruit trees and fruit shrubs ; 

 and the interior for propagating them for sale. Among the specimens 

 in the border may be interspersed the collection of strawberries. 



o, Kitchen-garden. The surrounding border for single specimens, or small 

 beds of every kind of culinary vegetables, and herbaceous fruit plants, 

 such as gourds, &c., annual or perennial, grown in kitchen-gardens, and 

 the interior for propagating them for sale. The plants of agriculture 

 and arboriculture, not grown in gardens and parks, will occur in the 

 botanic garden ; but if it should be thought fit to exhibit these col- 

 lected together, more especially the different varieties of corns and 

 cultivated grasses, that may be done in one of the compartments of the 

 kitchen-garden. 



I', Experimental and seed garden, into which the public are not admitted. 

 In this is a range of pits or frames, for raising seeds and annuals for 

 transplantation into the borders; the composts and manures are also 

 kept in this garden. 



Q, Hollow wall, for being heated by hot water, for the growth of peach 

 trees, nectarines, figs, &c. 



R, Gravelled walk from the forcing garden to the tunnel, so as to connect 

 it with the hot-houses. 



s, Dotted lines, including between them a space which is not to be planted 

 on, in order to admit of walking through the botanic garden, and con- 

 sequently round the whole garden, on turf, for those who may prefer 

 a grass walk to one of gravel. These dotted lines, it must be recol- 

 lected, are entirely imaginary ; and, in reality, the glade of turf will 

 have a most irregular boundary, formed by the ever-varying position of 

 the trees of the arboretum. The use of the lines on paper is to show 

 that, in [jlanting, the space between them must on no account be en- 

 croached on from cither side. 



T, (/Ottagc already existing, which may either be let, or occupied by the 

 curator's foreman, and the workmen and ajjprentices under him. 



u I', Situation of two |)erpetual s|)rings, the water supj)lieil by which it 

 is proposed to collect in the basin v,and thence to convey it to an over- 

 shot wheel at w, which works a forcing-pump, for the purpose of raising 

 the water to the cistern in the tower x. 



X, This tower supplies water to the hot-houses, and to all the fountains. 



V V, The two roads from Birmingham to the garden gate. 



z. Road to llarborne. 



a. Mass of variegateil hollies, shown in the section a n at I. 



6, Circular terrace walk on a perfect level, and 12 ft. broad. 



c c c. Circle of pits to be immediately erected, and backed by a temporary 

 fence of pales or brick, of the exact height of the front glass of the hot- 

 house and green-house, d d, as in /fg. 77. Within this wall a border may 

 be formed, for fruit trees to be trained on it ; and, by leaving holes through 

 the wall, innnediatcly over the upper part of the pit, the stems of orna- 

 mental shrubs planted in the border behind may be brought through 



