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ference of the wheel, and the shoes applied to them, while the 

 wheel was turned round by a tread lever, or treadle. 



70, Root-house, containing bins for keeping different kinds of 

 potatoes, carrots, parsneps, Jerusalem artichokes, beets, and 

 yellow, French, and white turnips, with shelves for onions ; 

 and a loft over, which is used as a fruit-room. The fruit is 

 kept partly on shelves, and partly on cupboard trays. 



71, Store place for beer or ale, which is brewed by Mr. Pratt 

 for the use of the family in London, as well as at Cheshunt ; 

 here is also a regular staircase to the fruit-room. 



72, Harness-room, properly fitted up with every convenience, 

 and warmed by a stove. 



73, A lobby or court to a door which opens to the brook, for 

 the purpose of clearing out an excavation made in the bottom 

 of the channel, in order to intercept mud, and thus render the 

 water quite clear where it passes along the pleasure-ground, 

 and is seen from the library window and the grand walk. 

 (Jig. 158. in p. 640.) The whole of any mud which may col- 

 lect in the brook may be wheeled up a plank through this 

 door, without dirtying the walk. 



74 74, The brook. 



75, Foot entrance to Mr. Pratt's house, the coachman's house, 

 the dairy, &c. 



76, Carriage entrance to the stable-court, garden offices, farm- 

 yard, &c. 



77, Private entrance to the garden, over the rustic bridge shown 

 in Jig. 158. 



78, Masses of vitrified bricks and blocks of stone, distributed 

 among lawn and shrubs ; among which, large plants of agave, 

 and other rock exotics, are placed in the summer season. The 

 pots and tubs being concealed, by covering them with the 

 stones forming the masses of rockwork. Here the semicir- 

 cular space surrounded by rock contains a collection of Hi- 

 malayan rhododendrons, &c, in pots, many of them seedlings 

 which have not yet flowered. 



79 79, American shrubbery, consisting chiefly of rhododen- 

 drons, azaleas, magnolias, &c, growing in peat earth kept 

 moist by the brook. 



80, American garden, consisting of choice American shrubs, and 

 American herbaceous plants. In the centre of the circle a 

 handsome tazza vase on a bold pedestal. 



81, Two semicircles for dahlias ; the surrounding compartments 

 containing a collection of roses. 



82, Garden of florist's flowers. 



83 83, Garden of herbaceous plants, chiefly annuals. The walks 

 in all these gardens are edged with slate. The bed 83f con- 

 tains a collection of choice standard roses. 84, Dahlias. 



