412 Description of a Design for the 



and other animals, might be introduced, should it ever be deemed ad- 

 visable to combine a zoological establishment with this garden. 



L, American garden. The surrounding border is for a collection of single 

 specimens of American and other peat-earth shrubs, trees, and herba- 

 ceous plants, and the interior compartments are for propagating plants 

 for sale. 



m, Flower-garden. The surrounding border for a collection of single 

 specimens of roses, dwarfs, and standards, and of the most showy com- 

 mon garden-soil border flowers ; the interior for bulbs and other florists' 

 flowers, georginas, stocks, &c, and other annuals for sale. 



N, Orchard. The surrounding border, and the margins of the alleys, for 

 a complete collection of single specimens of fruit trees and fruit shrubs ; 

 and the interior for propagating them for sale. Among the specimens 

 in the border may be interspersed the collection of strawberries. 



o, Kitchen-garden. The surrounding border for single specimens, or small 

 beds of every kind of culinary vegetables, and herbaceous fruit plants, 

 such as gourds, &c, annual or perennial, grown in kitchen-gardens, and 

 the interior for propagating them for sale. The plants of agriculture 

 and arboriculture, not grown in gardens and parks, will occur in the 

 botanic garden ; but if it should be thought fit to exhibit these col- 

 lected together, more especially the different varieties of corns and 

 cultivated grasses, that may be done in one of the compartments of the 

 kitchen-garden. 



p, Experimental and seed garden, into which the public are not admitted. 

 In this is a range of pits or frames, for raising seeds and annuals for 

 transplantation into the borders; the composts and manures are also 

 kept in this garden. 



q, Hollow wall, for being heated by hot water, for the growth of peach 

 trees, nectarines, figs, &c. 



r, Gravelled walk from the forcing garden to the tunnel, so as to connect 

 it with the hot-houses. 



s, Dotted lines, including between them a space which is not to be planted 

 on, in order to admit of walking through the botanic garden, and con- 

 sequently round the whole garden, on turf, for those who may prefer 

 a grass walk to one of gravel. These dotted lines, it must be recol- 

 lected, are entirely imaginary ; and, in reality, the glade of turf will 

 have a most irregular boundary, formed by the ever-varying position of 

 the trees of the arboretum. The use of the lines on paper is to show 

 that, in planting, the space between them must on no account be en- 

 croached on from either side. 



t, Cottage already existing, which may either be let, or occupied by the 

 curator's foreman, and the workmen and apprentices under him. 



v u, Situation of two perpetual springs, the water supplied by which it 

 is proposed to collect in the basin v, and thence to convey it to an over- 

 shot wheel at w, which works a forcing-pump, for the purpose of raising 

 the water to the cistern in the tower x. 



x, This tower supplies water to the hot-houses, and to all the fountains. 



y y, The two roads from Birmingham to the garden gate. 



z, Road to Harborne. 



a, Mass of variegated hollies, shown in the section a b at 1. 



b, Circular terrace walk on a perfect level, and 12 ft. broad. 



c c c, Circle of pits to be immediately erected, and backed by a temporary 

 fence of pales or brick, of the exact height of the front glass of the hot- 

 house and green-house, d d, as in jig. 11. Within this wall a border may 

 be formed, for fruit trees to be trained on it ; and, by leaving holes through 

 the wall, immediately over the upper part of the pit, the stems of orna- 

 mental shrubs planted in the border behind may be brought through 



