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made his Dr. Faust do for the same purpose, sell himself to 

 the devil. I believe, Sir, the true reason why our ino-enious 

 philosophers have not succeeded in establishing more perfect 

 systems of gardening and farming is, that they devoted them- 

 selves so much to the discovery of the process by which 

 nature forms the oi'gans of plants and animals, as the albur- 

 num, the leaves, the nerves, the brains, &c., as to have over- 

 looked the uses for Nvhich they were made. 



I am, Sir, yours, &c. 

 Radipole, Feb. 7. 1833. Joseph Hayward. 



Art. VIII. An Economical Mode of building Garden Walls, Sheds, 

 and other Garden and Agricultural Structures. Bv R. Mallet. 

 Esq. 



Sir, 

 Though the principal object of this paper is to point out 

 a cheap and durable method of constructing garden walls, I 

 have yet incidentally mixed up with it various hints on con- 

 structing other country buildings of different kinds ; garden 

 sheds, tool houses, mushroom houses, men's lodges, and gar- 

 deners' houses, being as generally required as walls. 



Buildings, one or two stories high, may be more cheaply 

 erected with cast-iron uprights, and the spaces between filled 

 up with any kind of durable materials, say bricks made for 

 the purpose, sandstone flags, slates, or timber, according to 

 locality. In this way buildings of great cheapness, occupying 

 little useless space in thickness of walls, and incapable of 

 prostration by any hurricane, could be erected, and, more- 

 over, would be portable, if that were considered an advan- 

 tage. The section of each iron upright should be as in^. 42. 

 Supposing those placed in the plane of the walls 

 of the intended edifice (the only foundation for 

 which need be the blocks of stone for them to rest 

 on), the spaces between might be filled up by bricks, 

 made as' in j%. 43., of which a b is a perspective 

 view, c a cross section, and d a portion of the cast- 

 iron upright, with the brick placed in its grooves. 

 These bricks lock into one another, and thus may be put 

 together and stand without cement ; or they might be merely 

 dipped into thin grout before laying together, and thus their 

 staunchness insured. 



Rabbeted bricks of this kind would be as easily made as 

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