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"VI. Ail forfeits to be paid to the gardener, on or before the Saturday 

 night following. If any person working regularly on the premises fail to 

 conform to the above rules and regulations, the gardener shall be at liber- 

 ty to stop his fines from his wages. Further, should any foreman or jour- 

 neyman fail to comply with the above rules and regulations (with a knowl- 

 edge of them,) the gardener shall be at liberty to seize and sell his tools 

 or part of them, to pay such fines, in one month from the time the offence 

 was committed. 



" VII. All fines to be expended in a supper, yearly, to all the parties 

 who have been fined." 



When these rules were first adopted, the fines were sufficient to afford 

 an annual supper, with beer, etc. ; but of late the amount has been so 

 small, that Mr. Harrison has found it necessary to add to it to supply beer, 

 etc., for the supper ; a proof of the excellent working of the rules. Mr. 

 Harrison remarks that these rules were established about eleven years ago, 

 and that they have been most effective in preventing all slovenly practices ; 

 an advantage which he considers as thus purchased at a very cheap rate. 



16, Mushroom-shed, in which the mushrooms are grovioi in Oldacre's 

 mamier. 



17, Wood-yard, shaded by three elm trees. 



18 18, Calf-pens. 19, Cow-house. 20, Tool-house. 



21, Piggeries. 



22, 23, 24, Places for fattening poultry, on Mowbray's plan, not, as usual, 

 in coops. Between this and 2.5 is a privy for the head gardener. 



25, Place for meat for the pigs, which is passed through a shoot to 26. 



26, Two tanks sunk in the ground, covered with hinged flaps, the upper 

 edges of which lap under the plate above, so as to shoot off the rain, for 

 souring the food intended for the pigs. One tank, which is much smal- 

 ler than the other, is used chiefly for milk and meal for the fattening pigs, 

 and sows with pigs ; and the other for the wash and other refuse from 

 the house, for the store pigs, which, with the refuse from the garden, 

 apple-loft, etc. amply supplies the store pigs and sows, without any pur- 

 chased food, except when they have pigs sucking. The good effect of 

 the fermentation or souring is accounted for by chemists, who have 

 found that it ruptures the ultimate particles of the meal or other food ; a 



