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by Mr. Austin. They may be laid down as flooring to a green- 

 house or a summer-house, and the interstices may be filled in 

 with a red or black coloured composition, so as to leave the form 

 of the tile of a stone colour. Windows in tool-houses, sheds, 

 privies, &c., and openings in walls, might be disguised by such 

 tiles in the same manner as that in which they are now concealed 

 by Grecian or Gothic ornaments. Walls, separating or sur- 

 rounding small gardens, might be formed either partly or entirely 

 of these tiles : garden seats and benches might also be formed 

 of them. They would form pedestals for pots or vases, and they 

 would supply models for Chinese flower-gardens. Either of 

 these tiles, enlarged to the scale of one eighth of an inch to five 

 feet, would form a very curious flower-garden ; the solid work, 

 or tracery, of the tile constituting the gravel walks, and the open 

 panels the dug beds. 



Art. IV. Design Jbr a Gardeners House, adapted for the South- 

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



The present design {Jig. 22.) completes the series of eight 

 gardener's houses, adapted for being connected with the walls 

 of kitchen-gardens. They are all in the very plainest style pos- 

 sible, and with the chimney tops low, in conformity with the 

 pi'evailing idea that such houses ought not to be obtrusive objects 

 in the scenery of a country residence. There is one circum- 

 stance connected with them to which we wish to direct particu- 

 lar attention. They have all cellars or hollow spaces below the 

 floors. In by far the greater number of gardener's houses at 

 present existing, the floors are only a step or two, if so much, 

 above the level of the adjoining surface ; and, as such houses 

 are almost always in confined situations, they are consequently 

 damp and unwholesome. It is a great mistake in masters, to 

 suppose that they can make the most of their servants when they 

 lodge them in such houses ; and an equally great one in those 

 who are lodged in them, not respectfully to remonstrate with their 

 employers on the subject. 



The next designs for gardener's houses which we shall give 

 will be for detached dwellings ; either in a portion of the ground 

 belonging to the kitchen-garden, which we consider the proper 

 place ; or exterior to it, so as to become an agreeable object in 

 the general scenery. All these designs will be more ornamental 

 than those already given. 



In the tide of the preceding design, p. 65., for '' south-west 

 wall" read " south-west ans'e." 



