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is here presented in regard to carrying 

 both the roofs of the glass-houses in front, 

 and those of the offices behind, all through 

 on a level. The ridge-and-furrow mode 

 of roofing suggests very clearly that this 

 is the best way of roofing all such build- 

 ings. It enables us to dispense with a 

 lofty back wall, both expensive and use- 

 less,' casting its shadow over a consider- 

 able space of valuable ground, and ren- 

 dering, by excluding the sun, the buildings 

 so damp as to be of little use. It will 

 also be observed that in this extensive 

 range doors are entirely dispensed with, 

 excepting such as may be required to 

 gain admittance into the potting rooms, 

 &c, behind. The whole fronts and ends 

 of the houses form, as it were, a multi- 

 plicity of doors, admitting ingress and 

 egress every 6 feet, either for passing 

 from one to the other, or for stepping out 

 on the border in front : this should 

 be provided with a cast-iron footpath, 

 laid on iron rails, as will be shown in 

 art. Footpaths. 



The reference h shows the tropical fruit- 

 house, (for section of which vide art. Tropi- 

 cal-fruit House,) 62^ feet long and 20J 

 feet wide, upon the curvilinear roof prin- 

 ciple; i cherry-house, 60^ feet long and 15 

 feet wide, upon the span-roofed principle ; 

 k apricot and plum house of the same 

 dimensions and principle as the last; 

 I 1 pine pits, with span roofs, each 62^ feet 

 long and 13 feet wide; mmmm melon, 

 cucumber, or young pine pits, the same 

 length and breadth as the last ; n n water 

 tanks, into which all the rain water is 

 conveyed after the cisterns in the house, 

 or over the furnaces, are supplied ; and if 

 that is not sufficient, an additional supply 

 may be thrown in by a pump or other- 

 wise : these tanks should be 2 feet above 

 the ground level, to give pressure for 

 carrying the water in pipes to any part 

 of the garden, unless the ground slope 

 towards the south sufficiently to carry it by 

 its own gravity ; o is the head gardener's 

 house ; p men's rooms, consisting of a 

 kitchen and dining or mess room, with 

 closets for pantry, &c, on the ground- 

 floor, sitting or reading room, and bed- 

 rooms above ; q office, seed-room and 

 fruit-room, the two former up-stairs ; r 

 carpenter's, glazier's, and painter's shop ; 

 s store-room ; t tool-house ; u packing- 

 house, with a supply of water for prepar- 



ing vegetables for the kitchen ; v v potting 

 houses ; w pot room ; x room for kitchen 

 apples and pears ; yyyy open sheds for 

 mould; z onion-house, &c, extra store- 

 room ; a' a' a' are the stoke-holes of the 

 principal range, leading down to the 

 cellars : water-closets should be placed 

 in convenient parts of the cellars, with 

 water-tight tanks under them, supplied 

 from the nearest cisterns with water, and 

 emptied when necessary by a small port- 

 able pump, and used as liquid manure ; 

 V V &c, stoke-holes to span-roofed houses 

 and pits. The smoke of these is to be 

 carried along the back wall towards the 

 centre, unless in the case to be suggested 

 hereafter, as regards the large central or 

 tropical fruit-house. The intention of 

 thus directing the smoke from all the 

 furnaces of those houses to one point, is 

 to get rid of it by means of one tall orna- 

 mental chimney-shaft, similar to that of 

 the front or principal range ; and also, 

 as the back wall is built hollow, it may 

 become considerably warmed, and hence 

 ripen tender fruits on the spaces of wall 

 between the ranges of glass : c' c' c' & prin- 

 cipal entrances; d' private entrance to 

 gardener's house ; e' private entrance for 

 the labourers; // arched gateways; 

 h'h'h' cart entrance; /'/'/' principal 

 kitchen garden, into which no fruit trees 

 are to be admitted, except against the 

 walls : these are to be planted in the 

 exterior divisions. The walks should be 

 at least 8 feet wide, to admit a pony 

 carriage to drive freely all round, as well 

 as to admit carts in winter to draw in 

 manure, &c. With these objects in view, 

 the corners of the box-edgings should be 

 rounded off a little, to facilitate turning 

 from one walk to another. The gateways 

 c' and g should be sufficiently wide for this 

 purpose ; the others need not be of so 

 large a size. 



The interior walls of such a garden we 

 would propose to be 10 feet in height, 

 built hollow, and heated by hot-water 

 pipes all round, if in the climate of Scot- 

 land. The exterior ones, excepting the 

 south wall, which should only be 10 feet, 

 should be 12 feet in height, as affording 

 greater shelter and scope for the hardier 

 kinds of fruit trees. 



By surrounding the whole with a ha- 

 ha, or rabbit-proof wire fence, not only is 

 a greater extent of ground enclosed at 



