1-26 DescrijUion (fa Design for the 



local knowledge, must necessarily understand them much 

 better than any stranger. 



With respect to execution, it is not to be supposed for a 

 moment that the fountains, or the whole, or even one half of 

 the hot-houses are essential to our plan ; the whole of the 

 former may be omitted, and no more of the latter need ever 

 be erected than what are shown in//)f. 77. Indeed, if no more 

 glass were ever erected than what is shown in^. 77., still, by 

 means of the extensive circle of pits, as good a collection of 

 house plants might be kept, as is to be found in most British 

 botanic gardens. 



The following particulars are essential to the effect of our 

 general plan : 1st, that no deviation be made from the circu- 

 lar plan of the hot-houses, however small a portion of that 

 plan may be executed ; 2d, that the entrance for garden 

 materials, fuel, &c., to the interior area of these hot-houses, 

 be concealed by a tunnel, as indicated in the plans^y^'-s. 71. 

 75. and 77- ; 3d, that in the botanic garden (i, in fig. 71.) 

 no duplicates be admitted, and not a single plant be intro- 

 duced for the purposes of shelter or immediate effect'; ^th, 

 that no hot-beds, frames, or pits, mushroom beds, or dung- 

 beds of any sort, be permitted to be made any where, except 

 in the interior area of the hot-houses, or in the experimental 

 ground {fig.l\.v)\ 5th, that the situation of none of the 

 frravel walks be altered, and that no new walks be added; 

 and 6th, that walls or buildings of any description be placed 

 in tiie interior of the kitchen, fruit, flower, or American 

 garden. 



For carrying the working-plan [Jig. 71.) into execution, the 

 first operation is, to form the outline of the circle of hot- 

 houses, and the terrace walk around it, on a perfect level, with 

 the straight central walk in three inclined planes, having per- 

 fectly level circles in the situations destined for the fbiuitains, 

 as illustrated by the section a n wjig. 71. The next thing is, 

 to form the tunnel [Jig. 71. oh) for the entrance of carts, &c., 

 with manure, fuel, soil, &c., and for the private entrance to 

 the curator's house. The third operation is to form the 

 main walks, 1 2 ft. broad, round the hot-houses and pleasure- 

 n-round, "-radually narrowing them to 10 ft. in breadth at the 

 further extremities of the garden, as done in the working- 

 plan. These things being accomplished, or in progress, a 

 section of the hot-houses, amounting to one sixth part, or 

 100 ft., and the whole outer circumference of pits, GOO ft., 

 may be commenced. The expense of the pits is estimated at 

 700/. ; and of 200 ft. of hot-house and green-house at 1000/. 



It is suggested that only a part of the walks near the hot- 



