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The annexed, fig. 27, is a plan of a 

 forcing-garden upon a limited scale, and 

 Fig. 27. 



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adapted to a country residence where the 

 fruit, kitchen, and flower gardens are 

 apart from it. We have placed the gar- 

 dener's house here as being more conve- 

 nient for night-work. The garden is en- 

 closed with 10-feet walls, and placed, in 

 regard to exposure, two points to the west 

 of south. Such an exposure has been 

 advocated by garden architects, and has 

 been noticed in this work in reference to 

 kitchen gardens, with a view to extend 

 the solar influence to as late a period of 

 the day as possible, and also to prevent 

 those accidents which often happen to 

 forcing-houses, when dull, cloudy morn- 

 ings are suddenly followed by bright 

 sunshine, which often causes the foliage of 

 plants to suffer from the sudden transi- 

 tion from shade to bright solar influence, 

 unless the precaution of early ventilation 

 is attended to. 



On the plan, A is the gardener's house, 

 in which a is sitting parlour ; b dining- 



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room ; d pantry ; e larder ; c staircase 

 leading to sunk or area floor, in which is 

 placed a kitchen under a, cellar under b, 

 water-closet under the stairs under c, coal 

 and fuel closet, and the other apartment 

 under d e. The stair is carried up in c, and 

 leads to the bed-room floor, in which are 

 three bed-rooms with wall closets in each ; 

 / front-door entrance, with porch — not 

 however shown, and g the entrance from 

 garden ; A vinery; i i peach-houses ; j fruit 

 and seed room ; k store-room ; 1 1 stoke- 

 holes, and stair leading down to a range 

 of cellars underneath, in which is a mush- 

 room-house, tool cellar, root cellar, and 

 water-closet ; m men's sitting-room ; n 

 men's bed-room ; o o pine-houses and 

 vineries combined, or with li to be 

 wrought separately, if desired ; p melon 

 and cucumber pits; q pine pits; r pits 

 for forcing asparagus, salads, late cu- 

 cumbers, &c. ; s cistern of water, into 

 which is collected by pipes all the rain 

 water that falls on the various roofs, 

 after the cisterns placed over the fur- 

 naces, and the soft- water tank at the gar- 

 dener's house, are supplied. The ground 

 is supposed to be level. 



The vinery h, and early peach-house i, 

 on the left hand, are heated by one boiler 

 placed in the cellar behind, from which 

 also pipes are taken through the mush- 

 room-house under the fruit-room j. The 

 other boiler heats the late peach-house i, 

 the pine and grape houses o o, the melon 

 and cucumber pits p, and occasionally the 

 pine pit q. As during a great portion of 

 the year the late peach-house i will not 

 require artificial heat, the pipes are taken 

 diagonally from the boiler, which is placed 

 in the cellars, through under the border, 

 in a barrel drain stuffed with charcoal, to 

 the point t, and so continued till they 

 enter the vineries o o, and from them in 

 like manner to the pits p and q. Stop- 

 cocks are placed at the points where the 

 hot water is to be shut off, or turned on, 

 according to circumstances. When all 

 the stopcocks are open, the water will 

 circulate to the extreme point and return 

 again to the boiler in the same line, but 

 at a lower lever. The cart-entrance gate 

 is shown at u ; v v v v are borders for fruit 

 trees to cover the walJs. If no local circum- 

 stance prevents the walls from being en- 

 closed externally by a wire fence, a border 

 may be made and trees planted therein ; 



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