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On the kitchen garden, we have little to remark ; but cannot help ap- 

 proving of the plan adopted here, of not growing any crop whatever on 

 the fruit tree borders. They are not even dug, but every weed cut up as 

 it appears, and a surface dressing of rotten dung occasionally applied to 

 supply nourishment, retain moisture, and prevent the surface from be- 

 coming indurated. This practice deserves imitation. 



In the culinary hot-houses, things look as well as when we last reported. 



Art. IX. Architecture. 



Architectural Improvement. We invite artists of leisure and taste to 

 furnish us with sketches, accompanied by a word or two of description, of 

 such novelties in their art as are applicable to the country. Plans and 

 elevations of cottages, entrance-lodges, with the dimensions of the rooms; 

 different descriptions of walls for fences and gardens ; gateways, and gates, 

 fences, bridges, and architectural chimney-tops, will be very acceptable. 

 Our grand object is to improve the forms and arrangement of the commonest 

 things, and introduce taste into every day objects. The lodges now erecting 

 in Hyde Park, from the designs of W. D. Burton, are good examples in 

 many respects, and particularly in that of being handsome in every front ; 

 and having the kitchen-yard sunk so as not to be in the slightest degree 

 offensive. There is not one of these lodges that might not, at a very short 

 distance, pass for an ornamental building in a pleasure-ground. The pre- 

 vailing error in almost every description of building erected in the suburbs 

 of London is, that on the side of the building which is considered as front, 

 such expence and taste as can be afforded is exclusively displayed, while 

 the three other sides are completely neglected, both in regard to design, 

 and the material employed. But wherever a house is in any degree de- 

 tached, what are called the sides and back are seen just as much, and as 

 frequently as the front ; at least, the front and one side are always seen to- 

 gether. The master art, in rural architecture, is to make all the sides of 

 a house beautiful, and to avoid as much as possible the appearance of what 

 are called backsides, which are disagreeable seen at a distance, and near at 

 hand display the slovenliness and disorder of kitchen and other domestic 

 appendages. Subjected to judicious design, they would render the back of 

 every house as handsome as the front. In natural objects there is no 

 backside ; every part is beautiful after its kind. Few suburban builders, 

 however, are in the habit of considering the effect of objects in perspective, 

 and a large, or small country house, is too often with them merely a slice 

 from a smaller or larger row of houses from a London street. 



Art. X. Domestic Economy. 



The following valuable receipts have been procured for us by Mr. John 

 Anderson, F.H.S., Gardener to the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury, from 

 an eminent French cook, lately in the Earl's service. 



Tomata Sauce for Cold Meat. Boil tomatas when ripe, rub them 

 through a tammy cloth, to every quart of pulp add § ounce of garlic and 

 1 ounce of shallots, salt to taste, boil \ hour, strain out the garlic ; add to 

 every quart, half a pint of common vinegar, and a wine glass full of Chili 

 do. ; let it stand a day or two before corking. 



Potted Tomatas. Reduce your tomatas over the fire, till they are quite 

 thick, stirring all the time to keep them from burning ; rub them through 

 a tammy, put them again into your stew-pan, with an equal quantity of glaze, 



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