. The book of the garden. Gardening. 3 form one of the very cheapest and best possible for a fruit garden. For a 14- inch wall, bricks might be made of that length; and for a wall of 2 feet or more in thickness, the interior might be entirely hollow, with cross-walls every 4 or 5 feet. To save bricks in the cross walls, and also to admit of the free transmission of heat from one division to another, they might be built in what is called the pigeon-hole manner, viz., each stretching The hot-water walls at Woburn Abbey, of which fig. 71 is the plan, deserve espe- cial notice as being one of the
. The book of the garden. Gardening. 3 form one of the very cheapest and best possible for a fruit garden. For a 14- inch wall, bricks might be made of that length; and for a wall of 2 feet or more in thickness, the interior might be entirely hollow, with cross-walls every 4 or 5 feet. To save bricks in the cross walls, and also to admit of the free transmission of heat from one division to another, they might be built in what is called the pigeon-hole manner, viz., each stretching The hot-water walls at Woburn Abbey, of which fig. 71 is the plan, deserve espe- cial notice as being one of the best ex- amples exhibited of that mode of heating. They occupy those parts of the north Fig. wall not covered with glass. " The pipes are introduced along a cavity that com- mences within a few inches of the bottom of the wall, and is continued to the top, but is connected by piers that are carried up about 4 feet apart, which unite the back and front of the wall together, and render it, although hollow, equal to a solid wall in strength : they are also found more economical in the erection, as there is a considerable saving of mate- ;—Forbes in Hortus Woburnensis. We have shown the ground-plan of this hot wall because it is different from those adopted by ourselves, and is in fact a double hollow wall—Mr Atkinson's ob- ject being to prevent the loss of heat by its passing through the north side. Hitches patent rebated brick wall is thus described in the "Supplement to the Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture:"—"The bricks are much larger than usual, and the walls are said to be stronger, and twenty per cent cheaper. Fig. 72 represents a longitudi- nal section of a 9-inch header, and a part Fig. 72. o of one course of 9-inch work. From this it will be seen that the headers and stretchers are rebated together, and form two external faces of brickwork enclosing a hollow space, or series of hollow spaces. Each of the head
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