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gentle breeze, or murmuring of the waters, or an occasional 

 splash of the finny tribe ; and these are hardly sufficient to 

 break the spell which such a situation casts over the mind. 

 Such an appendage to the mansions of the great (wherever 

 attainable) is, in my opinion, truly desirable. This garden 

 contains an exceedingly good collection of herbaceous and 

 other flowers, and is in equally high keeping with the other 

 portions of the grounds. Several stumps of large old trees, 

 covered with creepers, such as Verbena chamaedrifolia, &c, are 

 introduced in it with very good effect; but the beds appeared 

 too crowded to show themselves*" properly. Lady Radnor, 

 who is a warm encourager of horticulture, sent her gardener 

 to Paris, in the summer of 1829, to see the principal gardens, 

 Sec, there, and to collect what he possibly could that was new 

 and rare. 



I am, Sir, yours, &c. 

 London, April 13. 1831. Wm. Sanders. 



Art. IX. Design for a Gardener s House, containing Five Rooms 

 and an Office; adapted for being connected voith the Wall of a 

 Kitch en -ga rden . 



A valued friend, an architect and an enthusiastic amateur 

 of horticulture, now travelling in Scotland, has elsewhere, in 

 this Magazine, suggested to us the propriety of giving plans 

 of gardeners' houses, connected with the walls of the kitchen- 

 garden. Country gentlemen, he says, cannot so readily 

 conceive how the detached plans of dwellings, which we have 

 given in our Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Archi- 

 tecture, can be applied to the sort of lodges which they 

 generally erect as lean-tos to the walls of their kitchen-gardens. 

 We intend to comply with his suggestion ; and, with the 

 assistance of our architectural draughtsman, to give eight de- 

 signs in this Magazine, totally different from any in the work 

 just mentioned, and especially calculated for the four sides 

 and the four corners of kitchen-garden walls. Like true 

 freemasons, we shall commence with a design for the east 

 wall of a garden. 



This design contains a cellar floor {Jig- 104. c), in which are 

 an under-kitchen or wash-house (a), and a beer-cellar (Z>). In 

 the former is an oven, the flue of which is conducted under 

 the kitchen floor, and that of the passage (c), gardener's office 

 (d) adjoining, and parlour (f), for the purpose of heating them 

 in the manner described in Vol. VI. p. 157 2 to which we beg 



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