FEBRUARY. 
35 
a passage runs directly through the centre, the doors of the divisions 
being made to slide each way, leaving the passage clear from end to 
end. The doors are made with two panels only, filled with plate 
glass. The passage floor is laid with cast-iron grating, set into-cast-iron 
bearing rails, and these are supported by larch posts, set in the ground 
to take up little space, and to admit of the whole being taken up and 
put down at pleasure; the entire range is heated by two saddle boilers, 
placed under the gravel walk. 
The centre or large house is planted with standard and dwarf Peaches, 
one corridor with standard Apricots and Plums. The two houses next 
the centre one have Vines trained up the roofs, with Figs and other 
fruit trees in pots, set on the surface of the border. The oth.er houses 
have trees planted out and in pots, and a Strawberry shelf is intended 
to be carried along the inside of the parapet wall, giving a lineal extent 
equal to the whole length of the side and end walls. The ground 
round is intended, to be laid out as flower garden and shrubbery. The 
design and execution of this building has been executed by Charles 
MTntosh, Esq., the eminent landscape gardener and architect, and 
author of the “ Book of the Garden,” and reflects the greatest credit on 
his professional abilities. 
Charles Tennant, Esq., of The Glen, Peebleshire, has made con¬ 
siderable additions to his garden establishment; within the year a 
range of two Vineries and a Peach-house, each 32 feet long by 20 feet 
wide, have been completed ; at the back of these a conservatory or 
corridor, 79 feet long by 16 feet wide, has been erected, terminating at 
one end by masonry and a highly worked architectural window, which 
externally gives the appearance of a chapel window, as seen in con¬ 
nexion with the mansion. This range is elevated about 15 feet above 
the ground at the front door of the mansion, and the grounds extending 
to about six acres, are terraced with balustrading, steps, &c.—a 
bowling green and geometrical flower-garden forming part of it. 
Houses for growing and forcing plants are placed in the kitchen garden, 
which is near, but out of sight. The ventilation of the conservatory is 
managed in a similar way to what has been described for Whitehill, 
Mr. MTntosh having also the superintendence of the improvements 
at that place. This range is heated by one saddle boiler. The floor of 
the corridor is to be paved with Minton’s encaustic tiles ; the footpaths 
of the Vineries are formed of ornamental cast-iron gratings. A vault 
extends the whole length of the corridor, underground, for fuel, work¬ 
shops, potting, &c. 
At Rachan House, Peebleshire, the seat of James Tweedie, Esq., 
great improvements are about commencing ; the whole of the grounds 
are to be laid out, and a new kitchen garden formed, Vineries and 
a greenhouse have been designed, and glass screens, 100 feet long, 
somewhat similar to those erected at the Earl of Airlie’s, are to be 
erected. Designed by Mr. MTntosh. 
At Craigdarroch, Dumfriesshire, Robert Cutler Ferguson, Esq., has 
an entirely new kitchen garden of five acres, divided into compartments 
by terrace walls, and complete with every accessory of forcing houses, 
pits, &c. The site of a new mansion in the Elizabethan style is already 
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