ICE-HOUSES. 



507 



this plan, is the ventilation in dry arid 

 weather. 



" Reference to plan — a, a conical hole 

 in the ground ; b, stones or rubble to act 

 as a drain, 18 inches ; c, slabs 4 feet high 

 above the surface ; d, door ; e, trap-door, 

 to answer a similar one on the opposite 

 side, to be opened in a dry air, and care- 



fully closed when the circumambient at- 

 mosphere is damp." 



" The Gardeners' Chronicle " has, dur- 

 ing the last few years, been, and very 

 properly, filled with plans and descrip- 

 tions of ice-houses. We say very properly, 

 because, with very few exceptions, there 

 have neither been drawings nor descrip- 



725. 



Fig. 726. 



tions of this kind of building published 

 in works on gardening in general. The 

 ice-house and fruit-room combined, repre- 

 sented in the annexed ground-plan and 



section, figs. 725 and 726, are very com- 

 plete, although we do not approve of 

 combining the two together ; nor can we 

 sanction the complicated mode of filling 



