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ranges, glass on* all sides, for main crops of grapes and peaches (m, m, k), and partly 

 placed against walls (n, w), for more early forcing. The pine-pits and melonry 

 (m, /, k, n), and the compost-ground (m, w), were within the walls, and approached by 

 carts by a subterraneous road from the concealed part of the orchard (s). The hot- 

 houses, pits, and walls were heated by steam from a central tower (f ), two ponds (r, r) 

 supplied water to a system of pipes, which distributed it over the open garden, and the 

 hot-houses were supplied from a cistern under the glass roof of the tower (f ) : a room 

 for eating fruit, or repose (rf), occupied a situation which overlooked the whole. The 

 main entrance for the master and his friends was at the southern extremity (e), and 

 that for the head gardener and his operatives at the other end of the garden. (b) 



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^v\fastrt e r y tl b f r nsidere( J a9 c PO se <J ^ effect, as well as for use; audit 

 may be asserted, that the central range of hot-houses, when the grapes and peaches are 



