health. It ought never to be forgotten, that attention to the above rules, in partially drying green succulent vegetables, is essential to the thriving of rabbits kept in hutches; and, hence, in London and other large towns, instead of fresh vegetables, they are fed with clover hay. One of the kinds of rabbit bred at Mr. Harrison's is the hare rabbit, mentioned in the Encyclopædia of Agriculture, § 7355, the flesh of which resembles that of the hare, in quantity and flavour. Mr. Pratt has fed rabbits here, which, when killed, weighed 11 lbs. We can testify to their excellence when cooked.

67, Coach-house, with stairs to hay-loft. 68, Stable. 69, Mill-house, containing mills for bruising corn for poultry, a portable flour mill, a lathe, and grinding-machine for sharpening garden instruments and similar articles. In the Angel Inn in Oxford, some years ago, a lathe of this sort was used for cleaning shoes, the brushes being fixed to the circumference of the wheel, and the shoes applied to them, while the wheel was turned round by a tread lever, or treadle. 70, Root-house, containing bins for keeping different kinds of potatoes, carrots, parsnips, Jerusalem artichokes, beets, and yellow, French, and white turnips, with shelves for onions; and a loft over, which is used as a fruit room. The fruit is kept partly on shelves, and partly on cupboard trays.

71, Store place for beer or ale, which is brewed by Mr. Pratt for the use of the family in London, as well as Cheshunt; here is also a regular staircase to the fruit-room.

72, Harness-room, properly fitted up with every convenience, and warmed by a stove.

73, A lobby or court to a door which opens to the brook, for the purpose of clearing out an excavation made in the bottom of the channel, in order to intercept mud, and thus render the water quite clear where it passes along the pleasure-ground, and is seen from the library window and the grand walk, (Fig. 5, p. 459.) The whole of any mud which may collect in the brook may be wheeled up a plank through this door, without dirtying the walk.

74 74, The brook.

75, Foot entrance to Mr. Pratt's house, the coachman's house, the dairy,

etc.

76, Carriage entrance to the stable-court, garden offices, farm-yard, etc.

77, Private entrance to the garden, over the rustic bridge shown in Fig. 5.

78, Masses of vitrified bricks and blocks of stone, distributed among lawn and shrubs; among which, large plants of agave, and other rock exotics, are placed in the summer season. The pots and tubs being concealed by covering them with the stones forming the masses of rockwork. Here the semicircular space surrounded by rock contains a collection of Himalayan rhododendrons, etc., in pots, many of them seedlings which have not yet flowered.

79 79, American shrubbery, consisting chiefly of rhododendrons, azaleas magnolias, etc., growing in peat earth kept moist by the brook. 80, American garden consisting of choice American shrubs, and American herbaceous plants. In the centre of the circle a handsome tazza vase on a bold pedestal.

81, Two semicircles for dahlias; the surrounding compartments containing a collection of roses.

82, Garden of florist's flowers.

83 83, Garden of herbaceous plants, chiefly annuals. The walks in all

[Fig. 10.

Distant view of the House and Tent, across the Pond.]

these gardens are edged with slate. The bed 83+ contains a collection of choice standard roses. 84, Dahlias.

85, Double ascent of the steps to a mound formed of the earth removed

in excavating for the pond. From the platform to which these steps

lead, there is a circuitous path to the Chinese temple; and the steps are ornamented with Chinese vases, thus affording a note of preparation for the Chinese temple. The outer sides of the steps are formed of rockwork, and between the two stairs is a pedestal with Chinese ornaments.

86, The Chinese temple, on the highest part of the mount formed of the soil taken from the excavation now constituting the pond. The view from the interior of this temple is shown in Fig. 9, p. 471.

87, Rustic steps descending from the Chinese temple to the walk which borders the pond. 88, The pond.

89, Open tent, with sheet-iron roof supported by iron rods. This structure may be seen in the view Fig. 10.

90 90, Masses of evergreens and deciduous trees and shrubs.

91, Grotto, made late last year, not yet completed. It was formerly an outer ice-house, but it failed as such. The entrance is surrounded by rockwork, and the interior in the form of a horseshoe, furnished with a wooden bench as a seat. Over this grotto, is an unbrella tent, as shown in the view Fig. 11. 92, Dahlias.

93, Slip of ground for compost, and various other materials requisite for the garden and farm-yard; communicating with the frame-ground by the door 94, with the farmyard by the gate 95, and with the farm by the gate 96.

94, Door from the frame-ground to the slip behind. 95, Gate from the slip to the farmyard.

96, A gate from the slip to the fields of the farm.

97, Grass field, forming part of the farm.

Fig. 13, in p. 476, 477, is a vertical profile of the gardens and pleasure-ground, with the farmyard, and a small portion of the farm. This view shows:

1, The house. 2, The domestic offices and yard. 3, Vinery in a small garden.

4, Back entrance to the domestic offices, and the smaller kitchen-garden. On one side of this walk is placed one of Fuller's portable ice-boxes. 5, The smaller kitchen-garden.

6, Broad border for pits; and in which there is a cold-pit for protecting vegetables during winter.

7, Boundary plantation.

8, Angular brick wall, for the sake of having different aspects for the fruit trees which are trained against it; and for strength, being only one

brick in thickness for lessening the expense.

9, Pond in the largest kitchen-garden, supplied from the brook by pipes with waste pipe to the pond on the lawn.

12, Covered seat; of which a view is shown in Fig. 12. In front of this seat there is a mulberry tree of large dimensions, which was trans