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the consequences in generating one child after another, more bedrooms will be necessary, 

 and a larger parlor and kitchen. As a gardener, in common with other domesticated 

 servants, is liable to be removed from the house he occupies at a short notice, and with- 

 out any reference to his having, or being able to procure another, it follows, as a matter 

 of justice, that what are called house-fixtures should be provided by the master. Water 

 should be conducted to a pump fixed in the back-kitchen ; a furnace and boiler for 

 washing affixed ; a proper range, with oven, &c. dressers, tables, shelves, &c. in the prin- 

 cipal kitchen ; grates, and such closets and clothes-presses placed in the parlor and other 

 rooms, &c. as the occupier would place there, if he held the house on lease. In general, 

 we may observe that a master has seldom occasion to repent making his servants' abode 

 comfortable, and even rather agreeable and elegant, than otherwise. A master of a well 

 regulated mind, indeed, will be anxious to effect this, as far as lies in his power, for every 

 portion of animated nature under his protection. 



1701. The gardener's office is necessarily omitted in small places; but it is an essential 

 requisite wherever several men are kept. It should, if possible, adjoin the dwelling, and 

 be connected with the seed-i-oom, fruit-room and cellar, root-cellar, tool-house, and gar- 

 dener's lodge. The furniture or appendages to this room are the writing-desk ; a 

 bookcase, containing a small library, to be lent out to the men ; a map of the garden, 

 and of all the grounds under the master's care ; a herbarium press, and a cabinet for such 

 specimens of plants as tlie gardener may find it useful to dry for his own use, or, as often 

 happens, for that of his family ; a drawing-board and T square ; a board to be used when 

 new grounds are laying out, as a plain table (in geometry) ; a tlieodolite, Gunter's chain, 

 and measuring laths ; with any similar articles, as spare tliermometers, budding- 

 knives, &c. 



1702. The seed-room may be connected with the office by a door in the lobby. This 

 should be a small room, well ventilated, with a cabinet of drawers, as in a common seed- 

 shop, but on a smaller scale, and somewhat different system. The lower tier of drawers 

 should, of course, be the largest, and may be one foot deep by two wide on the face, and 

 eighteen inches broad within. Tliis tier will serve for beans, peas, acorns, mast, &c. A 

 second may be three fourtlis the size, for carrot, turnip, spinage, larch-seed, &c. A third, 

 half the size, for salad-seeds ; and the fourth for those of pot and sweet herbs, need not be 

 more than four inches deep on the face. The upper part of the cabinet may consist of 

 shallow drawers, divided into ten or twelve compartments each, for flower-seeds ; and on 

 the top of all, as being least in requisition, similar shallow drawers, with moveable parti- 

 tions for bulbous roots. As the kind or kinds placed in each drawer will probably vary 

 every year, it seems better that their names should only be written on paper and pasted 

 on. There ought to be a small counter, with a weighing machine (that of Medhurst is 

 preferable), an ink-piece placed on it, and drawers, with paper bags, packthreads, &c. 

 below. Some seeds, which it is desirable to keep in the fruit, as capsicum, pompion, &c. 

 may be suspended from rows of hooks, fixed in the ceiling. 



1703. The fruit-room may be connected with the seed-room. This ought to be well 

 ventilated, for which purpose, like the three other rooms, it ought to have a small fire- 

 place. The fruit-room was formerly a mere loft, where fruits were kept on the floor in 

 common with onions, with no proper means of separation, or arrangement for systematic 

 consumption. Now, however, they are regularly fitted up, either with shelves of lattice- 

 work, on vi'liich to place sieves of different sorts of fruit ; or with close shelves, for jars, 

 boxes, &c. according to the various modes adopted of preserving them. The room may 

 be of any form, but one long and narrow {Jig. 282. a, a) is generally best adapted for 

 ventilation and heating, or drjdng, when necessary, by a flue. The system of shelves 

 (6, b) may be placed along one side, and may be raised to the height of six feet or more, 

 (c, c) according to the number wanted. These shelves are formed of open work (d, rf), 

 on which to place square sieves of fruit, each of which should be numbered, and a table 

 or slate (e), containing tlie corresponding numbers, may be hung up in the room, and 



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