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round the room of coops for hens with chickens ; above it, one for laying-hens ; 

 and above that, one for such as are hatching. On each side a hen stair leads to 

 the roosting-place, which is above the ceiling, so that nothing can ever drop on 

 the floor. The village here is being remodeled in the Gothic style in good 

 taste, and is already a most gratifying and conspicuous ornament to the public 

 road. Would that His Lordship might extend this admirable improvement to 

 all the cottages on the estate ! By way of expression of purpose, the smithy 

 has a large horseshoe sculptured on the gable, which projects over the entrance. 

 The inn and public houses have carved stone figures for their signs ; the beau- 

 tiful schoolhouse has a quotation, and the village shop has a riband label of 

 stone (too broad, and not very tastefully displayed) over the broad window 

 for displaying the goods. In the flower-garden we observed a curious hybrid 

 between a Brompton stock and a wallflower, which appeared to be producing 

 seed ; and which, at'all events, we trust Mr. Ingram has propagated by cuttings. 

 Chatsworth. — May 23. When we last visited this place in May, 1839 (see 

 our preceding vol. p. 450.), the grand conservatory was just beginning to be 

 glazed, and at present the glazing is almost completed. The panes are 3 ft. 

 9 in. in length, and 6 in. in width, and the work was performed by Mr. 

 Drake, glazier, Edgeware Road, London, at q2 

 the rate of \6d. per square foot. The sash-bars 

 are of deal, cut out by machinery impelled by 

 steam, i^;^. 61. is a section of the bar of the ^m 

 full size ; and fig. 62. are specimens of the 

 glass of the full thickness, showing at b the 

 thinnest glass, and at a the very thickest that 

 is used in the conservatory ; or, in other words, 

 showing the variation of thickness that takes ^ 

 place in this description of glass. The roof, ^ 

 as most of our readers know, is in the ridge- ^ 



and-furrow manner, and the quantity of sash-bar 



used in forming the sides of the ridges, exceeds p 

 40 miles in length. The hot-water heating- ^ 

 apparatus is already put up by Messrs. Walker « * 



of Manchester ; there are 8 boilers, and the length of pipe, which is 

 4 in. in diameter within, is about 7 miles. There is such a thorough 

 command of water on the adjoining rising grounds, that it would be easy 

 to form a system of pipes for throwing down a shower over the whole in- 

 terior of the house, in Messrs. Loddiges's manner; and the water for this pur- 

 pose might be heated by passing the pipes containing it through a mile or two 

 of the heating pipes. This has already been done with the pipes v hich sup- 

 ply water for the ordinary watering of the house. The progress of fitting up • 

 the interior is going on steadily, and will be completed, and many of the trees 

 planted, in the course of the autumn. The trees in the arboretum are in a 

 most thriving state ; and planting on little hills of prepared soil, keeping 

 these hills afterwards clear of weeds and covered with short grass, has done 

 as much here for the growth of the plants as it has done at Elvaston Castle 

 and the Derby Arboretum. Some of the rarer species of Pinus yj'bies and 

 Picea have made vigorous shoots, and will soon become fine trees. A^cer 

 palmatum, which was killed every where about London, by the winter of 

 1837-8, except in Mr. Knight's nursery, has never had any protection here, 

 and is now 3 ft. high in the open arboretum. The nomenclature of the ar- 

 boretum is unavoidably in a state of confusion; because, Mr. Paxton's object 

 being to collect as many species as he could, wherever he found a different 

 name he ordered a plant, and planted it with the name which he received, 

 with a view to future comparison and correction. In another year, by sending 

 one of his young men to the Derby Arboretum, he will be able to adjust the 

 nomenclature at Chatsworth to that of the Arboretum at Derby, which we 

 think it will not be denied is at present the most correctly named collection 

 of trees and shrubs in England. If it is not so, then we have spent ten years 

 of our life, and expended in cash or credit above 10,000/., in vain. 



