650 Select Suburban Residences. 



51, Court for enclosing the coachman's children. 



52, Lobby to the dairy. 53, Lobby to Mr. Pratt's brewhouse. 

 54, Cellar. 55, Chicken-yard. 



56, Fanner's yard. 



57, A gravelled court separating the coach-yard, 59, from the 

 stable-yard, 56. 



58, Place for slaughtering in. 59, Stable-yard. 



60, Shed for compost, and various other garden materials ; such 

 as a tub for liquid manure, in which it ferments and forms a 

 scum on the top, while the liquid is drawn off below by a 

 faucet with a screw spigot, such as is common in Derbyshire 

 and other parts of the north, which admits the water to come 

 out through the under side of the faucet. Here are also kept 

 paint pots, oil cans, boxes, baskets, and a variety of other 

 matters. The whole of this shed is kept warm by the heat 

 which escapes from the fireplace in 61, and from the back of 

 the orchidaceous house, 4. 



61, Fireplace and boiler for heating the orchidaceous house. 



62, Place for arranging garden pots. 



63, Shed, with roof of patent slates, which becomes a cheap 

 mode of roofing in consequence of requiring so few rafters, 

 amply lighted from the roof, and kept warm in the winter 

 time by the heat proceeding from the boilers at 61 and 64. 

 This shed contains a potting-bench, cistern of water, and 

 compartments for mould ; and, being lofty, it contains in the 

 upper part two apartments enclosed by wirework, for curious 

 foreign pigeons or other birds. On the ground are set, during 

 the winter season, the large agaves and other succulent plants 

 which are then in a dormant state, and which are kept in 

 the open garden during summer. On the whole, this is an 

 exceedingly convenient working-shed; being central to the 

 houses 3, 4, 5, and 6; being kept comfortably warm by the 

 boilers; being well lighted from the roof; and having the two 

 windows indicated at 62, before which is the potting-bench. 



64, Fireplace to the conservatory and the camellia-house. 



65, Place for keeping food for the rabbits and pigeons, with 

 stairs to the pigeon-house, which is placed over it. 



66, Rabbit-house, containing twenty-one hutches, each of which 

 is a cubic box of 20 in. on the side. Each box is in two divi- 

 sions, an eating-place and a sleeping-place ; the sleeping-place 

 is 8 in. wide, and is entered by an opening in the back part 

 of the partition. Both divisions have an outer door in front; 

 and, in order that the door of the sleeping-place may not be 

 opened by any stranger, it is fastened by an iron pin, which 

 cannot be seen or touched till the door of the eating-place is 

 opened. Mr. Pratt pointed this out to us as an improvement 

 in the construction of rabbit-hutches, well deserving of imita- 



