. The book of the garden. Gardening. VINERIES. 309 exemplified in the gardens of A. L. Gower, Esq. of Castle Malgwyn, are given in the " Journal of the London Fig. Horticultural Society" :—" The bottom of the border is gently sloped from the houses to the extreme edge, where is built a box-drain (a on fig. 415) extending the whole length of the border, as shown in the section. This drain is 1 foot square, the top of it being level with the bottom of the border. When this was completed, dwarf walls, marked c, were built across the border, 3^ feet apart, in the pigeon-hole m
. The book of the garden. Gardening. VINERIES. 309 exemplified in the gardens of A. L. Gower, Esq. of Castle Malgwyn, are given in the " Journal of the London Fig. Horticultural Society" :—" The bottom of the border is gently sloped from the houses to the extreme edge, where is built a box-drain (a on fig. 415) extending the whole length of the border, as shown in the section. This drain is 1 foot square, the top of it being level with the bottom of the border. When this was completed, dwarf walls, marked c, were built across the border, 3^ feet apart, in the pigeon-hole manner. On the top of these walls were laid rough flags. These in reality form the bottom of the border; and upon these is placed about 6 inches of broken stones and bricks, marked d, covered with turf, with the grassy side down, to prevent the soil mixing with the stones. There are flues or chimneys at each end of the border and centre, communicating with the drains in the bottom, as shown in the section, marked b. The tops of these flues are nicely made of stone, 10 inches square, through which is cut a hole of 6 inches square, into which is inserted a plug, of a wedge-like form, so as to fit tightly, but removable at plea- sure. These flues are about an inch above the ground. At the back of the border are placed cast-iron pipes (marked e) per- pendicularly, and also communicating with the drains underneath. Those, being higher than the flues in front, cause a motion in the air beneath the border. // are the boilers. After a long continu- ance of rain, the plugs in the flues in front are taken out, thereby creating a great circulation of air, and thus to a vast extent accelerating the proper drying of the borders, which is deemed of much ; The object of the inventor of this border, no doubt, was to get rid of superfluous water, and at the same time to admit a sufficiency of air naturally warmed by the sun; and by the same judicious arrangement, he has it in h
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