as Sources of Botanical and Floricultural Interest. 25 



4 



thus heated, melons, pine-apples, bananas, and a variety of other tropical fruits 

 and flowers can be grown in the summer season, as if they were in their 

 native country ; the only evils to be guarded against being high winds and 

 hail storms. 



Opposite the fountain there is an open loggia with a seat ; and on each 

 side of this loggia is a small door, the one forming an entrance for the mistress 

 to the poultry-yard, and the other an entrance for the master to the stables ; 

 here are also summer water-closets. In the reserve garden, the hot-houses 

 and pits are shown at m ; and the open area for composts, manure, &c., at n; 

 o is the gardener's kitchen ; p his living-room ; and q his private garden, 

 near which are a fuel-shed and a privy ; r is the entrance to the stable court, 

 in which, at t, there is the private entrance mentioned above, from the loggia. 

 The stables, the two coach-houses, and a privy for the men-servants, are shown 

 to the right and left of each. Here, also, is the fireplace to the flue in the 

 conservative wall, and to the boiler which heats the tropical border. The 

 poultry court is shown at s ; and at u the private entrance to it from the 

 loggia. The poultry-yard is supplied with water from the overflowing of the 

 basin and fountain, carried to it under ground. The poultry have access to the 

 stable court through a small opening in the wall, that can be closed at plea- 

 sure ; and to the open lawn, and the kitchen coiu-t, through other similar 

 openings. The kitchen court is shown at i; near which there is a servants' 

 entrance from the approach. Part of the branch road leading to the stables 

 is shown at tv ; part of the approach at x ; and part of the sweep round the 

 oval at J/. 



The conservative wall (ff) should not be a common erection, presenting 

 only a flat perpendicular surface and a horizontal line at top : it may have 

 piers at regular distances, terminating in caps surmounted by vases, above the 

 height of the wall, but arranged in form and proportion so as to harmonise 

 with the conservatory and the house. In the case of a Gothic or Elizabethan 

 building, these piers and their terminating ornaments should, of course, vary 

 accordingly. Instead of piers, the face of the wail might be broken by arched 

 recesses ; and, while a more delicate kind of plant was trained against that 

 part of the wall which formed the back of each recess, a more hardy sort might 

 be trained against the projections between them. We have seen a wall of this 

 sort at Genoa, on which all the recesses were covered with roses, and the piers 



