Design for a Gardener's Home. 



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gardener. Diluted ammoniacal liquor, where it can be procured 

 abundantly and at a reasonable rate, is a powerful and excel- 

 lent manure ; and, like salt, possesses the valuable property of 

 clearing the ground from all insects and worms. 



I am, Sir, yours, &c. 

 94. Capel Street, Dublin, Nov. 7. 1831. Robert Mallet. 



Art. VIII. Design for a Gardeners House, adapted for being 

 connected xvith the West Wall of a Kitchen-Garden. 



In pursuance of our plan of giving eight designs" for gar- 

 deners' houses, especially calculated for the four sides and four 

 corners of kitchen-garden walls, we present^s. 1 29. and 1 30., 



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before we describe which, we shall introduce a few remarks, 

 which have been sent us on the subject by our architectural 

 friend who first suggested the idea of publishing them. " The 

 gardeners' houses which I visited in Scotland are either 

 lean-tos generally behind the hot-houses, and consequently 

 exposed to the north winds, and precluded from all sun- 

 shine, except during a few weeks in summer ; or they are 

 detached houses, generally lodges to gates, or placed in conspi- 

 cuous situations in the grounds as ornamental objects. Now, 

 the first class I consider as discreditable in point of humanity, 

 and the other equally so in point of architecture. Would 

 any human being voluntarily submit to live on the ground, 

 under a shed exposed to the north, and excluded from every 

 ray of light or sun from the south ? Surely, no master entitled 

 to the appellation of humane would wish a servant to remain 

 in such a dwelling, if the evils attendant on it were pointed 

 out to him. I have been particularly requested not to mention 



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