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ing objects connected with the pleasure-ground are also more 

 or less noticed: — covered walk, 1342ft. long; sculpture 

 gallery, green-house, house for camellias, green-house for 

 pelargoniums, riding-house, tennis court, stable courts, Chi- 

 nese dairy, larders, rockwork, willow garden, American bank, 

 garden for hardy heaths, site for Cape heaths when out of 

 doors, collection of hollies, rosarium Britannicum, grass gar- 

 den, menagerie, wired compartments of menagerie, keeper's 

 apartments ; canary &c., room ; alders and birches, poplars, 

 species of ash trees, elms, temple and platanuses, American 

 oaks, arbour, different species of the genus Pin us, porter's 

 lodge. Besides these subjects, the following, still in the 

 department of the pleasure-ground, are treated of in distinct 

 chapters, as, indeed, are some of the subjects already men- 

 tioned : — Construction of the green-house, 2 pages ; Manage- 

 ment of the green-house and conservatory, 1 1 pages ; Con- 

 struction of the plant stove, 3 pages ; Management of 

 hot-house plants, 7 pages ; Management and propagation of 

 the Cape heaths, 11 pages; The evergreens, 3 pages. 

 64 pages, in all, are devoted to the description of the pleasure- 

 ground, and the objects in it. 



In the third part of the book, which treats of the kitchen- 

 garden, there are illustrations of these subjects : they are 

 numbered in sequence to those of the pleasure-ground. 16. 

 General plan of the kitchen-garden. 17. Ground plan of 

 the hot-houses, back sheds, &c. ; front elevation of the hot- 

 houses, &c. ; view of the garden entrance ; view of the gar- 

 dener's house ; south-east view of the gardener's house. 

 18. A diagram exhibitive of the details of the structure of 

 the rafters, bars, sashes, and glazing employed in the glass 

 structures for cultivating plants. 19. End elevation of the 

 fig or citron house and back shed ; section of the fig or 

 citron house, end elevation of the vinery or peach-house; 

 section of the peach-house ; section of the vinery. 20. Ground 

 plan, section, and end and front elevations of the pinery. 



21. Ground plan, elevation, and section of the pine pit. 



22. The same of succession pine pits. 23. The same of the 

 early forcing pit. 24. The same of the later forcing pits. 



25. The same of the house for the culture of the mushroom. 



26. Plan of hot wall and back shed. The subjects of these 

 engravings are, of course, the subjects of the descriptive letter- 

 press appended to them, of which there are 141 pages. Be- 

 sides, however, the subjects which the above titles bespeak, 

 the following are treated on : — Materials best adapted for 

 hot-house roofs; comparative cost. On heating hot-houses, 

 &c., with hot water ; on the formation of peach-house borders ; 



