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glass case for a garden library, for the use of the gardener, and shelves for 

 seeds, roots, tallies, &c. Beneath the potting bench are bins for different 

 kinds of soils, empty pots, &c. There is a wooden staircase to the floor 

 above, and there was a stone staircase to the floor below. The floor below 

 contained a fireplace for heating the hot-house and green-house, with a space 

 for fuel or lumber, and the remaining space was used for growing mushrooms, 

 or forcing rhubarb, chicory, &c. The loft floor is for mats, and for onions, 

 bulbs, and similar articles ; with an opening to the machinery of the clock, 

 for winding it up ; and the half of the window, before mentioned, opening to 

 the back lane. The smoke from the fires of both sheds came out through the 

 vertical openings between the columns of the turret, in order to avoid the 

 incongruous appearance of a chimney top over a clock ; the turret being for 

 the purpose of supporting a vane to indicate the direction of the wind to both 

 houses. At X y, in the south garden, were two pits for green-house plants, 

 4 ft. deep, with hollow walls and hollow bottoms ; and with an iron rod over 

 each rafter, and about 4 in. above it, for the purpose of keeping the canvas 

 covering necessary in winter a few inches from the glass, so as to preserve a 

 non-conducting vacuity between the canvas and the glass. The part of the 

 walls of these pits that was above ground was covered with ivy, to keep them 

 warm. The bed z is planted with trees and a few flowers; and the border at 

 1 was a trough with a brick bottom and sides, for marine and bog plants. At 

 Sf S)- c^ are brick pedestals, 9 in. square, and 1 ft. high, for supporting vases, 

 or pots of choice plants when in flower; or which might be used for seats : the 

 pedestal indicated at m, in the south garden, is surmounted by a statue in 

 Portland stone ; and that at a, by a crouching Venus in Austin's composition. 

 At 2 2, in the front garden, are brick pedestals supporting vases, but which 

 were formerly used as stands for bee-hives covered with earthenware covers, 

 which were scored to imitate a straw hive ; and at 3, in the back garden, was 

 a Polish hive, fixed against the wall. [The hot-house, green-house, cold pits, 

 stone shelf for alpines, &c., in the back garden, were removed in 1844, some 

 months after the death of Mr. Loudon, and the space filled up, and laid with 

 grass, to avoid the expense of keeping it up in its original state.] 



Fig. 06. is an isometrical view of the house and both gardens, in which 

 will be observed most of the objects described, except the trellises, and 

 the trees and shrubs; which are omitted, to leave the ground plan more 

 distinct. 



209. General system of planting both gardens. — The object being to make 

 both gardens, as well as both houses, appear as one, whether when seen in 

 front or from behind, the more conspicuous ornamental and fruit-bearing 

 trees and shrubs chosen for both gardens were of the same kind; any tree 

 placed in a particular position, at the angle of the house, or adjoining the 

 back or front entrance, &c., or of a particular kind or form (such as the cedar 

 of Lebanon), in one garden, having a corresponding tree of the same kind in 

 the other. For this reason, also, double trellises for gooseberries, &c., were 

 formed in both gardens in the same situations (s s in fg. 63. p. 135.) : and 

 even, to a certain extent, similar ornaments were introduced. At the same 

 time, as we intended to occupy the house and garden on the south side our- 

 selves, we introduced a great many subordinate trees and shrubs of rare 

 kinds into that garden, which were not planted in the other; and pursued a 

 system of management and culture which, as it will show how much may be 



