and of Rural Improvement generally, during IS^l. 589 



of sheds for the shelter of cattle, pigeon-houses, &c., in parks ; 

 of fruit-rooms, tool-houses, working-sheds, mushroom-houses, 

 houses like that of Mr. Wells of Kedleaf, for preserving leaf- 

 less deciduous shrubs, such as fuchsias, brugmansias, &c., and 

 even orange trees, through the winter, in gardens ; of poultry- 

 houses, dairies, &c., in farms; and of woodmen's lodges, places 

 for shelter, &c., along drives, &c., in woods. Besides these 

 objects, there are gates, fences, bridges, arcades, and picturesque 

 combinations of poles for creepers, espaliers for fruit trees, decora- 

 tions to wells or springs, and various other applications. We 

 do not recommend this description of material for cottages or 

 permanent buildings, where one of a more permanent nature 

 can be employed ; but there are many cases in which the car- 

 penter of the place has little to do, and others where more 

 expensive materials are not easily procured, and in all such 

 cases rustic-work of the kind we mention affords a valuable 

 resource. We recommend, as furnishing models, Ricauii's Rustic 

 Architecture, noticed in p. 34<., and another work by the same 

 author, about to be published, entitled Sketches for Rustic- Work. 

 The reader will also find a variety of designs adapted for this 

 kind of work in ouv Encyclopedia of Cottage Architecture, and in 

 the Suburban Gardener. 



Public and Royal Gardens. — The London parks, and the re- 

 creation of the working classes in them, have of late years been 

 more cared for by the Woods and Forests than formerly. 

 When the Regent's Park was first laid out, about 1815, there 

 were no roads but those adapted for carriages, and throughout 

 the whole length of these roads there was not a single seat on 

 which the wearied pedestrian, or a mother and her children, could 

 sit down. Gi'adually, however, in consequence of the subject 

 being taken up by the public press, this park has been in a great 

 part opened to the public, and gravel walks, seats, and other 

 accommodations, formed for general use. A new place of public 

 recreation has been projected in the east of London, to be called 

 Victoria Park, and an act passed for purchasing the ground, 

 about 290 acres; a plan for laying out which is published in the 

 Report of the Woods and Forests for 184-1, and in the West- 

 minster Review for November. A public park is projected in the 

 south of London, in the parish of Lambeth, to be called Lan- 

 caster Park ; and one also on the south side, but intermediate 

 between the Lambeth park and that of Greenwich ; so that in 

 a few years we may reasonably expect to see a sufficient number 

 of breathing-places, in and about the metropolis, for the health 

 of the inhabitants. The Green Park, St. James's Park, Hyde 

 Park, and Kensington Gardens, have all been more or less im- 

 proved, with a view to public accommodation. For the latter 

 we have suggested the planting and naming of a kvf ornamental 



