. The book of the garden. Gardening. 60 GENERAL FORMATION, &c, OF GARDENS. and support the gutters above them, to which the astragals of the roof are fixed. It will here be seen that the whole of this range of houses is supported on these tubular iron columns, the iron gutters, and iron arched supports in the centres of the houses; while no part of the metallic material is exposed to the ex- ternal atmosphere, excepting a portion of the valleys or gutters. For further details vide arts. Green- houses, Plant-stoves, Peach-houses, Vineries, Cucumber and Melon Houses, Pineries, &c.
. The book of the garden. Gardening. 60 GENERAL FORMATION, &c, OF GARDENS. and support the gutters above them, to which the astragals of the roof are fixed. It will here be seen that the whole of this range of houses is supported on these tubular iron columns, the iron gutters, and iron arched supports in the centres of the houses; while no part of the metallic material is exposed to the ex- ternal atmosphere, excepting a portion of the valleys or gutters. For further details vide arts. Green- houses, Plant-stoves, Peach-houses, Vineries, Cucumber and Melon Houses, Pineries, &c. Fig. 36 shows a section through the centre hothouse i, the terrace walk k, and parapet wall in front I; g represents the back wall of the house, with the space indicated by the dotted lines, in which is enclosed the mechanical apparatus for 36. k i 1^%" '''''' ' % ° * 8 '? '? zo opening and shutting the top ventila- tion ; h the front wall of back offices ; / chimney-tops, the smoke being brought from the furnaces through 20-inch party walls; e area windows to light the cellars; d blind area, 18 inches wide, and covered over at top to keep the walls of the cellars dry; b section through mushroom cellar ; a section through rooms behind ; c a 9-inch tubular drain, extending the whole length of cellars, into which all the superfluous water from the roofs and cisterns is conducted. This drain passes under the centre house, and under the middle walk of the garden, and is dis- charged into a reservoir in the outer slip, the overflow from which is led off into the park. The most perfect specimen of a garden in the mixed style, we can offer to our readers, is unquestionably that of her Majesty's at Frogmore, of which Plate IX. is a perspective view of the range of hothouses, while Plate X. is a plan of the ground. It is unequalled by any other in the world, either in extent or in judicious arrangement. This is at last as it ought to be. Previous to the creation of this splendid g
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