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may be put into the last fountain, to supply all the buildings on 

 that side of the garden. All the rain-water which falls on the 

 conservatories to be conducted in spouts to a tank in the propa- 

 gation ground, for the supply of the kitchen-garden, &c. 



Fenci7ig. — The kitchen-garden will require a wall 12 ft. high, 

 and the wall for half-hardy shrubs may be 10 ft. high; the 

 most effective, and least expensive, fence for the rest of the 

 garden will be a 6-ft. wall, of hammer-dressed stones, pointed 

 with mortar, and a holly hedge planted inside. 



Estimate of the Expense of executing the foregoing plans, in 

 a substantial and workmanlike manner : — 



Conservatories, terrace, and flower-garden - ,^6800 



Walls for the kitchen-garden, and half-hardy shrubs - 740 



Dry wall and holly hedge - - - 82 



Winter repository - - - - 410 



Curator's house and office _ - - 380 



Bear pit - - - - - 60 



Nine buildings, chiefly having the front elevation of "I g^^ 



rustic-work - - - J 



Top pond, a reservoir - - - - 6.5 



Low pond - - - ' - - 23 



Pipes for conveying the water - - - 120 



Trenching the ground for the arboretum, forming and "I ^^^ 



completing the walls, &c. - - J ' 



Do. do. kitchen-garden - - 75 



Draining the grounds - - - - 50 



^9755 



The preceding estimate includes all the necessary works and 

 buildings, of any considerable expense, for the completion of 

 the gardens (except the purchasing of animals and plants) ; the 

 entrance and roads, I presume, being included in your 4500/., 

 as mentioned in the advertisement for plans. I have given the 

 different items of expense, that the committee may be better 

 enabled to commence with the works most beneficial to the 

 Society; as, perhaps, the whole of the buildings for animals may 

 not be wanted for two or three years. 



The large centre conservatory for tropical plants will be the 

 most expensive erection, and may be deferred until the Society 

 possess sufficient specimens to stock it with; so that all the 

 necessary buildings, for the first year or two, may be completed 

 for 3000/. under the total estimate. 



Esholt Hall, Oct. 12. 1837. 



