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THE AMATEUR’S KITCHEN GARDEN. 
the house, and that which is not so, is covered by shutters, or 
lights; if the latter, all the better, as the gardener would find 
the space inclosed above the border useful for a hundred pur- 
poses, without interfering with the vine roots, such as wintering 
salads, hardening off plants, etc. 
The border is placed upon a thick layer of open stones, 
burrs, or bricks, by which all stagnation of water is most 
effectively provided against ; drain-pipes, three or four inches 
in diameter are also laid across the border under every arch 
formed in the front wall, and consequently under every vine, 
as these arches must be set out so that each vine has an open- 
ing for its roots to pass out by, into the outside border. 
The drain-pipes will convey the warmth from the hot-water 
pipes laid under the border, and also from the flue at the back, 
throughout the mass of rubble, from which it will rise to the 
soil of the border. A circulation of warmed air is by this 
arrangement secured to the interior of the house, which will 
greatly benefit the inmates, and often in cold weather render 
the opening of the ventilators unnecessary. Should too much 
o. Flow, and d return hot-water pipes, four inches in' diameter, with 
evaporating troughs cast upon some of them, e e. Flow and return 
two-inch hot-water pipes, fitted with stop-valve, to he used for warming 
the border, f. Front wall of vinery built on arches as high as the 
dotted lines go. This wall must be fourteen inches thick up to the sur- 
face of the border, above that nine inches thick. The walls on plan 
being drawn to a scale of one-tenth of an inch to a foot, it will not be 
necessary further to specify them. o. Pipe drain which passes down the 
front of the border, through the rubble that forms the foundation of the 
border to flue b, to be open at both ends, which will cause a circulation of 
warm air under the border, and one of these drains should be laid under 
each arch. h. Shelf for strawberries, etc. i. Ventilators, twelve inches 
deep at front and eighteen inches deep at back of house ; as many of 
these ventilators as can be got in should be used, indeed, there should 
only be sufficient brick-work between them, for them to slide over when . 
open, thus opening exactly one-half of the length of the house, both back ' 
and front ; they should be connected the whole length by means of an 
iron rod, and should slide in grooves upon metal bearings ; they can then 
be opened or shut by a cord passing over a pulley, where they are not 
within reach , or by a simple handle or knob, where they are so. j. 
Roller, and blind of canvas ; in early forcing this will be necessary, both 
for protection by night, and occasionally for shade by day, esp dally 
when the vines are resting in July and August, k. Border, eighteen 
inches wide, for fig-trees, l. Doors, m. Flag stones against doors, n. 
Shutters over outside border, p. Water drain laid along the front of 
border, s. Cliimn y. w. Windows. 1. Stokery. 2. Potting-shed. 3. 
Mushroom-house. 4. Inside border for vines. 5. Outside border. 
