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of the gardens, and the frames or houses in the rear, for the latter 

 to receive the full influence of the sun's rays, even on the shortest 

 day, more space must be given. It must be noticed, also, that, 

 although the forcing-houses will be named and particularised in 

 the references, it is not intended that they should be adopted 

 any farther than may be approved of, or deemed necessary, with 

 such alterations as may be found requisite to make them answer 

 better for their intended purposes. If room cannot be afforded 

 behind the frame ground for compost, &c, the space in front 

 of the frames can be appropriated for that purpose; and, 

 in that case, some other place must be found for working the 

 dung for the frames. With respect to the slips, they will appear 

 uniform in the plans; but, as it may not be convenient in every 

 case to follow this rule, any other convenient form can be sub- 

 stituted. The pathways that it may be deemed necessary to 

 place in and through the quarters will be left to discretion. 



With these few preliminaries, I submit to you the ground 

 plan of No. 1. of the series {Jig. 35.}, which contains barely an 

 acre within the walls, including the forcing department : this, not 

 being available for crops, is compensated by the entrance ground. 

 If side slips are wanted, reference may be made to plan No. 2., 

 in which a difference will also be made in laying out the quarters 

 of the garden. T. RutGer. 



Skortgrove, Essex, 1834. 



Art. III. Design for a Gardener s House, adapted for the North- 

 East Angle of a walled Kitchen-Garden. By Mr. Robertson. 



Having, in preceding articles, given designs for gardeners' 

 houses, suitable for being placed on the four side walls of a 

 kitchen-garden, we now proceed to give designs for the four 

 angles, which will complete the series. We are happy to find 

 that these designs have directed the attention of gentlemen to 

 the manner in which their gardeners are lodged, in different parts 

 of the country ; and that new houses, in some cases, and addi- 

 tions to old ones, in others, have been the consequences. We 

 have now before us three beautiful sketches of gardeners' houses 

 which have been thus originated, and which we shall probably 

 give, after the present series is completed. 



Another improvement which has taken place, connected with 

 gardeners' houses, is the removal of trees, shrubs, climbers, &c, 

 which often used to cover them in such a way, as not only to 

 render ventilation utterly impossible, but even to exclude the 

 light. Some very handsome and commodious gardeners' houses 

 have been, from this cause, rendered very unwholesome. 



The present design (fg. 36.), like those which have preceded it, 

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