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health. It ought never to be forgotten, that attention to the above 
rules, in partially drying green succulent vegetables, is essential to 
the thriving of rabbits kept in hutches ; and, hence, in London and 
other large towns, instead of fresh vegetables, they are fed with 
clover hay. One of the kinds of rabbit bred at Mr. Harrison’s is the 
hare rabbit, mentioned in the Encyclopedia of Agriculture , § 7355, the 
flesh of which resembles that of the hare, in quantity and flavour. 
Mr. Pratt has fed rabbits here, which, when killed, weighed 11 lbs. 
We can testify to their excellence when cooked. 
67, Coach-house, with stairs to hay-loft. 68, Stable. 
69, Mill-house, containing mills for bruising corn for poultry, a portable 
flour mill, a lathe, and grinding-machine for sharpening garden instru- 
ments and similar articles. In the Angel Inn in Oxford, some years 
ago, a lathe of this sort was used for cleaning shoes, the brushes being 
fixed to the circumference of the wheel, and the shoes applied to them, 
while the wheel was turned round by a tread lever, or treadle. 
70, Root-house, containing bins for keeping different kinds of potatoes, 
carrots, parsnips, Jerusalem artichokes, beets, and yellow, French, and 
white turnips, with shelves for onions ; and a loft over, which is used 
as a fruit room. The fruit is kept partly on shelves, and partly on cup- 
board trays. 
71, Store place for beer or ale, which is brewed by Mr. Pratt for the use 
of the family in London, as well as Cheshunt ; here is also a regular 
staircase to the fruit-room. 
72, Harness-room, properly fitted up with every convenience, and warmed 
by a stove. 
73, A lobby or court to a door which opens to the brook, for the purpose 
of clearing out an excavation made in the bottom of the channel, in 
order to intercept mud, and thus render the water quite clear where it 
passes along the pleasure-ground, and is seen from the library win- 
dow and the grand walk, (Fig. 5, p. 459.) The whole of any mud 
which may collect in the brook may be wheeled up a plank through 
this door, without dirtying the walk. 
74 74, The brook. 
75, Foot entrance to Mr. Pratt’s house, the coachman’s house, the dairy, 
etc. 
76, Carriage entrance to the stable-court, garden offices, farm-yard, etc. 
