To lag out and plant a small suburban garden, where the object is to have a green-home, or to force fruits and flowers.

175. General Arrangement

Wherever plant-houses, pits, or frames, are introduced into suburban gardens, unless these are to be kept in order, and supplied with plants, etc, by a commercial gardener residing in the immediate neighbourhood (by far the cheapest mode), it will be found necessary, to have a small portion of the garden separated from the rest as a reserve ground. In this space the proper soils and manures may be kept, a dung-bed for bringing-forward plants, or a pit for the same purpose, and for forcing cucumbers, growing melons, etc. It is also necessary, wherever plants are grown under glass or kept in pots, that this reserve ground should have a back door, or communication with a public road, otherwise than through the bouse, for the supply of dung for hot-beds, soils, fuel, and other articles required. The possession of a cucumber or melon frame adds greatly to the interest of every suburban garden; and there need scarcely be one, however small, without it; for, on a small scale, where there is only one bed, if there is no back door, the dung may be carried through the house in baskets. On a larger scale, dung, except as manure, may be dispensed with; and the heating of cucumber-frames and pits effected by flues, or, what is greatly preferable, by pipes of hot water.

Wherever there is a green-house, it ought, if possible, to be connected with- one of the living-rooms of the house; and it might frequently be so arranged, that in a vault or cellar underneath this green-house, rhubarb, sea-kale, chicory, and other vegetables that are eaten in a blenched state, might be forced; or mushrooms grown throughout the year. When this is attempted, however, there ought to be no communication between the cellar and the green~house; nor any openings in the former that will admit the air from it into the living-rooms; such sir being always overcharged with moisture, and baring generally an earthy disagreeable smell. Some possessors of suburban gardens have a taste for forcing different kinds of fruit, more especially grapes and peaches-; and some even might wish to grow pine-apples. All this may be effected in. a suburban garden almost as well as farther in the country; because the operator has a greater command of the sir enclosed by the glass case, than he has of the exterior Smoky atmosphere; and, however paradoxical it may seem, it would be easier to' grew a good crop of pine-apples under glass in a back garden in Cheapside, than it would be to produce a good crop of grata in the open air in the same garden, or to keep there a smooth closely-covered turf.

The principal con-skurationi with respect to forcing-houses in small suburban garden is the difficulty of placing them so that they shall obtain the foil influence of the' suz from its first appearance in the morning till sunset. Even in large suburban gardens in large towns, it is next to impossible to accomplish this, from the proximity of houses that either prevent the morning sun from shining on the glass so soon as it otherwise would do;, or, what is still move injurious, that intercept its rays between two and four o'clock in the afternoon, during which period, in towns, they have generally, from the comparative clearness of the atmosphere, the greatest power. Trees also, in adjoining gardens, are often very injurious; and there is yet another drawback, which in the road dust, and small particles of soot, which, in dry windy weather, are floating in the atmosphere, and, settling on the glass roof, lessen the quantity of light that penetrates it All these circumstances ought to be taken duly into consideration, before the occupier of a suburban garden ventures to erect forcing-houses for ripening fruits.