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In Two large Volumes Royal Octavo, embellished with 1350 Engravingi, 



THE BOOK OF THE GARDEN. 



By CHARLES M'INTOSH, 



Formerly Curator of the Royal Gardens of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, and lately of 

 those of His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, at Dalkeith Palace. 



THE VOLUMES ARE SOLD SEPARATELY, viz. 



t VOL. I. ON THE FORMATION OF GARDENS AND CONSTRUCTION OK GARDEN EDIFICES. 



776 pages, and 1073 Engravings. 2, 10s. 

 VOL. II. PRACTICAL GARDENING. 808 pages, and 279 Engravings. 1, 17s. 6d. 



WORKS on Gardening have long been abundant, and the popularity of many of 

 them has attested the general interest taken in this art, and the value of books as 

 guides and instructors in it. None, perhaps, has enjoyed a wider or firmer repu- 

 tation than the ' Practical Gardening ' of Mr M'Intosh, which was for many years 

 recognised as the completest, most systematic, and most practical extant treatise on 

 the art. A quarter of a century, however, has now elapsed since that work last 

 received the revisions of the author ; and in that time gardening, as a practical 

 art, has undergone such advances and improvements, that a treatise which might 

 be most valuable in 1830 has ceased to be so now. The 'Book of the Garden' 

 was accordingly resolved on, not merely to supersede the author's former, and 

 now comparatively obsolete work, but designed to form for its art a text-book as 

 full and complete as the ' Book of the Farm ' was for agriculture. The reception 

 which the work has experienced from the press and the public has been more than 

 sufficient to attest both the need of such a complete and systematic treatise on 

 gardening in all its departments, and the degree to which Mr M'Intosh has filled 

 up an existing blank. 



The work is divided into two great sections, each occupying a volume-i the first 

 comprising the formation, arrangement, and laying out of gardens, and the con- 

 struction of garden buildings ; the second treating of the theory and practice of 

 horticulture. 



CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. 



INTRODUCTION. GARDENING AS AN ART OF DESIGN AND TASTE, CONSIDERED AS RE- 

 GARDS ITS ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND PRESENT STATE. 



CHAPTER I. THE FORMATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF CULINARY AND FRUIT GARDENS 

 IN GENERAL. Section 1. Plan; 2. Extent; 3. Form; 4. Supply of Water ; 5. Situation; 6. Soil; 

 7. Fruit-Tree Borders ; 8. Principal Entrance ; 9. Shelter ; 10. Style. 



CHAPTER II. GARDEN WALLS. Section 1. Aspect of Walls ; 2. Foundations of Walls ; 3. 

 Materials for Garden Walla ; 4. Copings for Garden Walls ; 5. Trellised Garden Walls ; 6. Height 

 of Garden Walls ; 7. Arranging Walls to suit various situations ; 8. Colour of Garden Walls ; 9. 

 Construction of Garden Walls. 



CHAPTER III. HOTHOUSE BUILDING. Section 1. General Principles; 2. Angle of Elevation. 



CHAPTER IV. HEATING AS APPLIED TO HORTICULTURAL ERECTIONS. Section, 1. Prelimin- 

 ary Remarks ; 2. Heating by Flues ; 3. Heating by Hot- Water Pipes ; 4. The Tank Mode of 

 Heating ; 5. Heating by Hot-Air Stoves ; 6. Heating by Steam ; 7. Boilers and Pipes ; 8. Hot- 

 house Furnaaes ; 9. Cause of Circulation of Hot Water. 



CHAPTER V. VENTILATION. 



CHAPTER VI. FRUIT-HOUSES. Section 1. Vineries; 2. Pineries; 3. Peach-Houses; 4. 

 Cherry, Fig, Plum, and Apricot Houses ; 5. Tropical Fruit- House. 



CHAPTER VII. PLANT-HOUSES. Section 1. Conservatories; 2. Greenhouses; 3. Orangeries; 

 4. Heath-Houses ; 5. Orchid-Houses ; 6. Aquarium ; 7. Window Gardening. 



CHAPTER VIII. PITS AND FRAMES. Section 1. Pits and Frames Heated by Fermentation ; 

 2. Pits Heated by Smoke-Flues, Tanks, Hot- Water Pipes, and Steam ; 3. Cucumber and Melon 

 Houses ; 4. Mushroom-Houses ; 5. Conservative Pits. 



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