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ART. IX. Plan and Description of the Kitchen-Garden at Carlton Hall, the Seat of Miles Stapylton, Esq. By W. SEYMOUR, Son of Mr. John Seymour, the Gardener there.

Sir,

I SEND you a plan of our garden at Carlton Hall (fig. 129.), not that it possesses any decided advantage over the generality

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of private kitchen-gardens, but it is considered very convenient in most of its divisions, although it has the disadvantage of being placed too near the back of the house, by which we lose the advantage of a south wall and border, as that is occupied by the court-yard and out-offices.

This garden contains about two acres, and is divided into two parts by a flued wall (a a), about 10 ft. high, running east and west; with four small fire-sheds (bbbb), the two middle ones having two furnaces each in them. The outer walls (cc) are about 11 ft. high, and the wall-borders (d d) 12 ft. broad; the walks (e e) 5 ft., except the centre ones, which are 6 ft. wide; and the dwarf fruit tree borders (ff) 7 ft. broad; the

(hh) occupy the remainder of the ground, except two small vineries (ii), and the succession pine-stove (k), 60 ft. long by 17 ft. broad; with the vine-border (), tool-shed (m), seedroom (n), and a basin for water (o), supplied by a forcingpump, which likewise supplies the mansion. There are a fruiting pine-stove (p) with a peach-house (q) on the same range, and the sheds for pots and wheelbarrows at the back; a border in front of the pine-stove and peach-house (r); a coal-house (s); a cart-road into the park (t); a slip on the east, planted with gooseberries and currants (u); an herb-garden on the west (v); a filbert ground (w); and walks leading to the pleasure-ground (x). The melon-ground (y) is situated near the stable-yard, with a small pit (z), heated by fire, for either melons or pines.

Ealing, June 13. 1829.

I remain, Sir, yours, &c.

WM. SEYMOUR.

ART. X. Plans and Sections of the Horticultural Buildings for a Kitchen-Garden of Three Acres and a half within the Walls. By JUVENIS OLitor.

Sir,

ENCOURAGED by the insertion of my plan for a garden establishment (Vol. IV. p. 215.), I am induced to send you the plans of some of the buildings in it, as I proposed. I shall not enter into the minor details of each structure; for if I were to give a full explanation of every thing requisite in the erection of any one of the houses or pits (such as the shutters, boilers, pulleys, &c.), it would occupy too much room in your most useful publication, perhaps to the exclusion of the communications of abler correspondents. I shall give the ground plan and sections of every house and pit with as brief an explanation as I possibly can, which by the references given will be sufficiently understood by every class of your readers.

The plans (figs. 130. to 138.) which I now submit to you are arranged to be heated by hot water, which I am practically convinced is a very simple and economical mode of heating forcing-houses; but its merits, compared with steam or fire heat, I shall discuss in some future communication. In heating houses by steam or hot water it has generally been the practice, after heating the boiler, to convey the smoke into the chimney close by the boiler, by which I have always thought that a great quantity of heat was lost to the house, and a greater consumption of fuel than necessary required to keep

up the proper temperature; therefore, to make the most of the heat and the fuel consumed, I have carried the flue on the back of both the peach-houses, likewise on the back of a d, fig. 133., and a, fig. 136.; and, if required, the chimneys might, by the use of dampers in the flues, be taken on the back of bc, fig. 133., and of b, fig. 134. I have provided figs. 133. and 136. with wooden shutters, as will be seen by the sections; these will slide over the sashes by means of pulleys, and in the day-time, or when not in use, will lie under the roof. In my last communication (Vol. IV. p. 245.), for "icehouse" read "tool-house."

September 3. 1828.

I am, Sir, &c.

JUVENIS OLitor.

Ground Plan of the two Peach-houses. (fig. 130.) a a, Boilers; bb, reservoirs; c c, the pipes which go from the boilers

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a to the reservoirs b, the water returning the same way back by the lower pipe to the boilers; d d, flues; e e, a trellised walk; ff, water cisterns.

Interior Section of the two Peach-houses. (fig. 131.) a, Front trellis; b, back trellis; c, border for the peach trees; d, the pipes; e, the flue.

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Exterior Section of the two Peach-houses. (fig. 132.)
Ground Plan of the Cucumber and Melon Pits. (fig. 133.)

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reservoirs; dd, the pipes which in a and d go to the reservoirs bb, and return by the lower pipes to the boilers a a; but in b and c they go to the reservoirs c c, and return to the boilers a a on the back of the pit; d d, flues; ff, cisterns for water; and g g g g, walks.

Interior Sections of Cucumber and Melon Pits (figs. 134. and 135.), showing the pipes d d d, and flue e; ff, wooden shut

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ters; g g, pits to be filled with dung at the commencement of forcing.

Ground Plan of the Asparagus Pits, &c. (fig. 136.) a a, Pits

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for asparagus; bb, pits for sea-kale, rhubarb, &c.; a, boiler; bb, pipes which go on the front to the reservoirs c c, and return on the back of the asparagus pit to the boiler; d, cistern for water; e, flue; ff, walks.

Interior Sections of the Cucumber and Melon Pits (figs. 137.

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and 138.), showing the pits for asparagus (a a) and sea-kale (bb), and, if required, a shelf for mushrooms (c) might be made under the roof; d d, pipes; e, flue; and f, wooden

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ART. XI. Remarks on Mr. Billington's Pamphlet on Planting, &c. By A. G., Perthshire. [See our Notice of this Work, p. 473.]

Sir,

MR. BILLINGTON is more successful in the forest than in the closet, while his antagonists are more distinguished at wielding the pen than the spade; and it is to be regretted that the talents of this kind possessed by the baronet or Mr. Withers should be employed in any degree to detract from the merits of so well-meaning and defenceless a person as Mr. Billington appears to me to be. In writing he is by no means on an equal footing with either; but in point of practical experience, his professional avocations as a gardener and forester have afforded him opportunities of acquiring an intimate knowledge with the practical parts of planting, rearing, and pruning forest or other trees or plants, which neither of these gentlemen can possibly possess, however beautifully they may flourish with their pens, when they fancy they have hit on some discovery in the economy of vegetation; which, however, has been familiar to the mind, and formed part of the every-day practice, of every gardener worthy of the name, for a century before either of these modern foresters was in existence. Their writings, however, are not without their use. They are read by the upper ranks of society, who would hardly deign to look over the less finely turned periods of the obscure practical forester or humble horticulturist; and thus they excite attention to a subject amongst that class to whom it is of the most importance. If practical gardeners should have leisure and inclination to glance over their works, they could not help smiling at the mighty importance which these great personages attach to, and the overweening anxiety with which they endeavour to appropriate to themselves, what they conceive to have been hidden from the wise of all former ages, and instinctively revealed to them, and generously published by them for the benefit of all ages yet to come; processes, too, of which every professional gardener would blush if he supposed he were thought ignorant; and some few favourite theories the absurdities of which he would blush not to be able to detect. I believe the love of fame is a besetting sin with poor and rich; and in the pamphlet before us I can detect a little spice of this frailty in our friend and brother, Mr. Billington. I do not blame him for claiming his honest share of that fame of which he supposed himself robbed; but I am sorry he has done it in so bungling a manner. Allowances, indeed, must be made for irritated feelings, and other existing circumstances connected with his "permission to retire" from an office in which he evidently VOL. VI.

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