. The book of the garden. Gardening. GARDENERS' HOUSES. 477 desk, presses, drawers, &c.; h ground- floor water-closet; i fuel store ; h ash- hole. The entrance to the servants' bedroom is placed under the stairs, from whence, also, a stair descends to the cellars under the family room and parlour. Chamber-floor — I best bedroom, 18 feet by 14 feet, with one wall-closet; m Fig. up-stairs sitting-room, 18 feet by 14 feet, with one wall-closet; n bedroom for the female branches of the family, 12 feet by 13 feet; o family bedroom, 12 feet by 13 feet; p chamber-floor water-closet and bath
. The book of the garden. Gardening. GARDENERS' HOUSES. 477 desk, presses, drawers, &c.; h ground- floor water-closet; i fuel store ; h ash- hole. The entrance to the servants' bedroom is placed under the stairs, from whence, also, a stair descends to the cellars under the family room and parlour. Chamber-floor — I best bedroom, 18 feet by 14 feet, with one wall-closet; m Fig. up-stairs sitting-room, 18 feet by 14 feet, with one wall-closet; n bedroom for the female branches of the family, 12 feet by 13 feet; o family bedroom, 12 feet by 13 feet; p chamber-floor water-closet and bath ; q linen-closet; r bedroom for the male branches of the family, 12 feet by 11 feet j s closet off best bed-room. The general arrangement of such a house will readily be understood by our figure. It is necessary, however, to show how the bath and closet are supplied with water, &c. In the space between the roof of the house and the ceiling of the up- stair rooms, and immediately over the bath, two cisterns, 3 feet square, and the same in depth, should be placed close together, and a communication formed between them by a 2-inch pipe, with stopcock. These are to be supplied with cold water by a force-pump t in the kitchen, which also supplies the boiler behind and form- ing the back of the kitchen range, which boiler, if close- topped, will supply one of the cisterns above the bath with hot water, by means of a flow-and-return leaden pipe, 2 inches in diameter, pro- ceeding from it up the chimney, and brought along the ceiling joists to the cistern. Stopcocks should be placed on these pipes close to the boiler, so that the circula- tion may be shut off when the hot water is not required for the bath. We have exemplified a still more simple method of procuring a supply of hot water, by placing a small cast-iron boiler, fig. 681, behind the fire- place of an adjoining bedroom, such as I in our figure, and forming the back and sides of the grate. From the top of this a three
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