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THE GARDENER, 



and garden, which furnish for sale very considerable 

 quantities of choice plants, without greater means of 

 raising and keeping them, than those which I am 

 about to describe. 



Under a portion of the north wall of the inclosure 

 is a range of glass shed, fifty feet in length, ten clear 

 feet in breadth, and twelve feet in height at the back 

 part. This range is divided into compartments — a 

 stovehouse and a greenhouse — the former being thirty 

 feet long, the other twenty, and each communicating 

 with the other by a door in a brick partition. At the 

 extremity of the stovehouse, not adjacent to the se- 

 cond room, is a porch in range with the back wall, 

 but not extending so far in front, not roofed with glass, 

 but with slates, yet with a sufficiency of light through 

 the glazed frames in front and a part of the side, 

 and a sliding window in the roof, to render it useful 

 for containing such plants as it may be occasionally 

 desirable to keep in a cool and shaded place, to retard 

 their period of flowering, or to preserve in bloom for a 

 longer time than if they were in the interior ; at the 

 right hand side of the porch, under the slated roof, 

 which in that part corresponds in slope and breadth 

 with the range of glass roof, is the furnace, sunk in 

 an inclosed pit, three feet below the level of the floor, 

 the alleys of which, as the ground is very dry, are 

 sunk below the level of the garden walk outside ; a 

 door to the furnace pit prevents the waste of fuel that 

 would be occasioned by too great a draught of air.* 

 The roof of the entire range is inclined at an angle of 

 45°, and rests on a transverse beam of the glazed 

 frame in front, at no greater elevation from the ground 



♦ I have seen a miniature limekiln very economically used for 

 heating a hothouse, by being fixed next its rear wall in a farm 

 yard ; in this kiln w^ere burnt four bushels of lime daily, through 

 the means of the same furnace which heated the room. 



