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the pine-pits, melon-pits, and otlier minor forcing strnc- 

 tureSj should be arranged in an enclosed space behind 

 the "above, but at such a distance as to prevent their 

 being shaded during winter by the buildings in front. 

 This is perhaps the best arrangement, as it keeps the 

 whole forcing-garden together, and enables the work to 

 be more speedily carried on. Where it cannot be so 

 arranged, it should be formed at one end or side of the 

 kitchen-garden, in the position most fitted to facilitate 

 the various necessary operations. 



A general range of forcing-houses may be formed so 

 as to have an imposing and ornamental effect ; but when 

 these are placed in the kitchen-garden, the latter must 

 be so arranged as in some degree to correspond with 

 them. ^^Tien they are above the character of mere 

 forcing-houses, and particularly when plant-houses form 

 a portion of the range, they should be erected, not in 

 the kitchen-garden, but in some neighbouring portion 

 of the ornamental grounds, such as a small flower- 

 garden or in a section of the lawns. In this way a 

 good transitionary link can be established between the 

 kitchen-gardens and the pleasure-grounds. Care, how- 

 ever, must be taken to prevent the smoking chimneys 

 from becoming offensively visible, and to screen and 

 enclose the necessary sheds and roads leading to them 

 — objects frequently not easy to be secured in detached 

 situations. Our purpose in this volume does not lead 

 us to enter into detailed statements in regard to the 

 erection of forcing or plant-houses, and to the methods 

 of heating them. On these subjects we may refer our 

 readers for information to any of the recent works 

 which treat professedly on horticulture, such as Lou- 

 don's 'Encyclopaedia of Gardening,' or to the article 



