298 THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 



with a selection of the best sorts of pears and apples, 

 as standards, gives the exterior of the Garden the 

 appearance of an Orchard. 



On referring to the Plate, it will be perceived 

 that the range of Forcing -houses is erected against 

 the South side of the North wall of the Garden, and 

 that the Coal Sheds, Furnaces,, and other necessary- 

 appendages, are placed behind, where the fires are 

 attended to, and the ashes, and other unsightly 

 objects, are not in view from the principal walks of 

 the Garden. The Pit, or what is more generally- 

 called the Melon Ground, is also arranged in the 

 space behind the Hot-houses, and comprises three 

 ranges of Pits, two of which extend to about half 

 the length of the Garden, and are principally oc- 

 cupied with a succession of pines, melons, cucum- 

 bers, &c. all heated by dung linings applied round 

 the Pits. The two back Pits, No. 21, and 22, are 

 both heated by hot water, and are chiefly filled with 

 the fruiting Pine Plants, and with Grape Vines, along 

 the top of No. 21. The intervening spaces betwixt 

 these ranges of Pits, are all paved with brick, which 

 renders the Melon Ground always dry, and more 

 easily cleaned from the frequent quantities of dung, 

 &c. that is necessarily deposited between the Pits, 

 in the renewing and taking out of the spent dung in 

 the linings, &c. In the range of back Sheds, are 

 situated the Apple Chambers and Seed Room, and 

 other requisite compartments. In the centre of the 

 range, No. 15, is an apartment fitted up for the en- 

 tertainment of company in the fruit season ; the 

 ceiling of this room is ornamented by several kinds 



