The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . t;but it has been hollowed out in some places, and raised in others,under the direction of the architect, Beranger, so as to exhibitsome variety. The house is small, and, in point of architecture,is without merit. The kitchen-garden is large, and contains arange of 600 ft. of hothouses, and about as many feet in lengthof frames and pits. Every luxury that a kitchen-garden canproduce is raised in quantities, in season and out of season. Anornamental garden building contains a beautiful steam-engine,the machinery of which is
The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . t;but it has been hollowed out in some places, and raised in others,under the direction of the architect, Beranger, so as to exhibitsome variety. The house is small, and, in point of architecture,is without merit. The kitchen-garden is large, and contains arange of 600 ft. of hothouses, and about as many feet in lengthof frames and pits. Every luxury that a kitchen-garden canproduce is raised in quantities, in season and out of season. Anornamental garden building contains a beautiful steam-engine,the machinery of which is seen at work through its largewindows, pumping up the water to an elevated reservoir, whencenot only the house and various fountains and cisterns are sup-plied, but also a system of pipes under all the lawns, with cocksat regular distances, to which leather pipes can be screwed on,and the surface watered with rapidity and ease. In some casesthese pipes are laid along the upper e(\ge of sloping banks, con-cealed by the grass; and, being pierced with holes, from these. Fig. 46. Garden Chair in use atMonceaux. from June 28. to August 16. 1840 299 the water, when turned on, issues as an inverted shower, risingto the height of several feet, and running down the slope, so as towater the whole of it. The contriver of this arrangement, andthe proprietor who incurred the expense, deserve alike to becommended. Notwithstanding this extraordinary care, the lawnis far from having the smooth dark velvety green which cha-racterises those of England, doubtless from the coarse kinds ofgrass of which it is composed, and from the very sandy soil andwant of manuie. A mixture of clay, or of clayey loam, to thedepth of 6 in., sown with the common lawn mixture of grassessold by the seedsmen, or with Bvoxnxxs pratensis alone, wouldhave produced a very different surface. The profusion of flowers distributed over the whole of thisvilla differs widely from any thing we have ever seen in Englandor elsewhe
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