332 Landscape-Garde7iing, 



requisite, as in cases when the tan is deficient in heat, and the 

 season not admitting its renewah This I first saw exemplified 

 in a cucumber bed belonging to Mr. Howgate, of Leeds, and 

 it was the foundation of the plan I then adopted. 



I have three pine stoves thus heated, one 60 ft. long, one 

 SO ft., and one 33 ft. The boiler is 10 ft. long, by 4 ft. wide ; 

 it is fitted up with a wheel draft, and has double doors, and 

 registers in the ash-pit door. The heat continues regular 

 throughout the nights, though no attention is paid to the fire 

 after nine o'clock in the evening, except in very extreme cases 

 of severe cold or very high wind. In order to prevent the 

 escape of steam, the flag-stones are halved and overlaid at the 

 joints {Jig- 86.), and cemented together. They scarcely ever 

 require repair ; and, even if they were 86 



united in the ordinary way, the ce- ^^^^^^■^""""^^^^P" 

 ment would render them quite tight. 



After eight years' trial, I am perfectly satisfied with the 

 plan ; and though the warm w^ater system has the advantage, 

 that heat begins to circulate as soon as it is generated, whereas 

 in this mode we have no heat till we have steam, yet I do not 

 feel disposed to alter the system. I do not undertake to 

 recommend it to others whilst I describe it to you. 



The pines and grapes are in the highest health, as is best 

 proved by the number of prizes my man gets for them at the 

 exhibitions of the Yorkshire Horticultural Society; a cir- 

 cumstance to which I would not have adverted, were it not 

 necessary, in order to prove that the plan answers. 



I am. Sir, &c. 



JxiMEs Armitage Rhodes. 

 Horsforth Hall, Leeds, May 30. 



Art. VII. On Landscape-Gardening, as a Part of the Study 

 and Business of Practical Gardeners. By a L a ndsc ape- 

 Gardener. 



Sir, 

 Very few practical gardeners have signalised themselves as 

 designers of garden or park scenery. The reason seems to be, 

 that, within the usual bounds of a gardener's exertion, all is 

 order and regularity : his habitual attention to right lines and 

 regular curves, creates a love of mechanical precision ; his 

 business being to tame and correct Nature, he loses within his 

 own limits the perception of admiring her flowing freedom ; 

 confined to the precincts of his kitchen, fruit, and flower 



