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MISCELLANEOUS GARDEN STRUCTURES. 



Another palpable evil is of almost uni- 

 versal occurrence — namely, having the 

 floors level with, and in some cases even 

 below, the surrounding ground ; while, 

 in addition, the rooms are much too low 

 to be habitable, the windows too small, 

 and ventilation uncared for ; and in most 

 cases the sleeping apartments are on the 

 ground floor also. Greater errors than 

 these cannot possibly be fallen into ; yet 

 these, and others we could name, arise 

 from a fear of carrying the roof so high 

 as to render it difficult to plant it out. 

 Here comfort, health, and elegance of 

 expression in a good design, are all sacri- 

 ficed to a vitiated taste— a taste un- 

 known in any other country in the 

 world. An elegant and well-designed 

 gardener's house, in connection with a 

 w T ell laid out garden, is as much an 

 appendage of ornament as the walls, 

 hothouses, or conservatories themselves : 

 it is a part of a perfect whole ; and 

 if that part be awanting, that whole 

 must be imperfect and incomplete. 



In regard to the 

 interior arrange- 

 ments of such 

 houses, we may 

 observe, that all 

 fixtures and princi- 

 pal articles of fur- 

 niture should be 

 the property of the 

 proprietor of the 

 garden, and valued 

 to the occupant on 

 his entering on the 

 situation, and again 

 valued on his leaving it — he paying any 

 difference in value which may have been 

 occasioned by use. This is not the usual 

 practice, although we know it to be so in 

 several places, much to the credit of the 

 employer and comfort of the employed. 

 Indeed, some proprietors furnish the 

 house entirely, even to bed and table 

 linen. A small library of the most use- 

 ful and popular works on horticulture, 

 botany, arboriculture, rural economy, and 

 natural history, one of the best encyclo- 

 pedias, &c, should be furnished by the 

 proprietor — as well as some of the best 

 periodicals, as books of reference, and 

 also that the gardener may be enabled 

 to keep pace with the times in which he 

 lives. 



A very sagacious writer has remarked 

 that a gardener, when he enters upon the 

 charge of a garden, should not only be at 

 the head of his profession, but keep him- 

 self at the head of it, by taking care to 

 be informed of all improvements and 

 inventions in his line as they are dis- 

 covered and made public. " He must not 

 only know all that is in books, but must be 

 in advance in knowledge ; not only ready 

 'to apply all the best practices, but fertile in 

 expedients on extraordinary occasions, and 

 in cases of novelty, difficulty, or emer- 

 gency." No doubt such is expected of him ; 

 and therefore, as he is in most cases 

 far removed from towns, without the ad- 

 vantages of public libraries, or intercourse 

 with men of intelligence and learning, 

 the necessity becomes the more apparent 

 that the proprietor, who is to benefit from 

 the acquirements of his servant, should 

 assist him in procuring that information 

 which is of so much importance to both. 



Figs. 679, 680, are offered as a design 

 suitable for the residence of a gardener 



Fig. 679. 



in an establishment of the first order. 

 Architectural embellishments are avoided, 

 and the form is adopted which affords 

 most convenience within the least extent 

 of space. The situation should be near 

 to or attached to the garden, so that some 

 of the windows may command a view of 

 the greater part of it. 



The following will show the arrange- 

 ment : — 



Ground floor — a entrance lobby; b 

 passage and staircase ; c kitchen, 18 feet 

 by 14 feet, with one wall closet, force- 

 pump t, and sink u; d parlour, 18 feet 

 by 14 feet, with two wall closets ; e fami- 

 ly room, 13 feet by 15 feet ; f servants' 

 bedroom, 12 feet by 11 feet; g office, 

 13 feet by 11 feet, fitted up with writing- 



