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for ornamental shrubs. These trellises, the dwarf wall, and other arrange- 

 ments, will be better understood by the section fg. 65. ; in which a is the 

 green-house, with the flued party wall behind ; h b, the two paved walks 

 in the sunk area; c, the strip of grass between these paved walks; d, the 

 shelf for alpines in pots ; e e e, the double trellises ; //, the gravel walks ; 

 g g g, raised beds for herbaceous plants ; h h, borders for the arboretum and 

 fruticetum; i i, miscellaneous borders; and I, the southern party wall. 

 Between the dwarf wall under the trellis and the glass case, or green-house, 

 the groimd was lowered, so as to form the sunk area {b c b), which was on the 

 same level as the floor of the back kitchen, and that of the hot-house {q in 

 fig. 63.). On the south side of this area there was a stone shelf {u) for 

 alpines in pots ; on the north side, the green-house, or glass case (r), before 

 mentioned ; and the space between had a paved walk on each side, and in the 

 centre a strip of grass, as already shown in the section/^. 65. In the middle 

 of this small grass-plot, at w, was a socket for a double clothes-post ; that is, 

 a post having two horizontal arms at top, each of which supported a clothes- 

 line, which was fastened to a hook in the rafter of the hot-house at one end, 

 and passed over a pulley fixed to tlie basement of the veranda wall at the 

 other. When the clothes-post was not wanted, it was taken down, and laid 

 in a place appropriated for it, under the stone shelf u. At the hot-house end 

 of the grass-plot, the alpine shelf terminated in a shallow cistern for marsh 

 plants, and a deep cistern at v for aquatics. Near the cistern v was a sun- 

 dial, and at the opposite end of the grass-plot a vase, the plinth under which 

 formed a cover to a liquid manure tank, supplied from the water-closets. 

 The double shed p has a turret with a clock, in the centre of the gable facing 

 the houses (as shown in the section, ^^. 65.), and a semicii-cular window in 

 the centre of that towards the lane, which lights the lofts of both sheds ; so that, 

 from whichever side it is viewed, this double shed is symmetrical, and appears 

 as completely a single one, as the double dwelling to which it belongs appears 

 to be only one house. The shed belonging to the north house is fitted up as a 

 wash-house on the ground floor, and it has a loft over. The shed on the south 

 side has three floors : the middle floor, which is shown in the plan, is one step 

 above the level of the walks of the garden, and the ascent to it from the hot- 

 house was by four steps. In it there are a potting bench, a pump, a carpenter's 

 bench, and a wooden safe for ])reserving fruit, bulbous roots, or large specimens 

 of plants that will not lie flat between paper ; and, against the walls, a small 



