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experiments at very little expence. We wish every one, how- 

 ever, to take his own way, and whatever they do not to forget 

 to send the result to this Magazine. — Cond. 



Art. II. Description of an improved Garden Wall proposed 

 to be built at H - , near Bristol By J. A. B. Esq. 



Sir, 

 I send you the following description of a garden wall which 

 I am about to erect. It will consist of two four-inch brick 

 walls, as in the accompanying section (Jig. 1. a, b\ worked 

 in good mortar, twelve feet 

 high, five feet apart at the /' *\ 



bottom, and gradually ap- 

 proaching to the top, where 

 it may terminate in a coping 

 brick. I have consulted my 

 bricklayer, who will build it 

 for little more than a nine- 

 inch wall, the quantity of 

 bricks being about the same, 

 considering that there will be 



no occasion for piers for 

 strength. The ends are 

 closed by two low doors, and 

 there are two apertures at 

 the top, the whole length 

 being about thirty yards. 

 The only objection to the 

 plan is the little additional 

 space the wall takes up, the- 

 base being five feet wide: 

 but I conceive I shall have 

 an advantage much exceed- 

 ing the loss ; first, in the ad- 

 ditional exposure to the sun 

 gained by the slanting direction of the surface of the wall . 

 next in the thickness, by which the wall will be kept dry ; and 

 particularly in the means which the hollow space will afford 

 me, at a comparatively small expence and trouble, of drying 

 the wall in autumn and spring, by occasionally lighting a 

 little litter or gorse at each end, and closing up the doors, and 



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