Upon this too much neglected garden edifice, the editor has been favoured by Mr. Barnes, of Bicton Gardens, with the following excellent remarks: - "Have a place for everything, and everything in its place; - kept in good condition, and at all times put away clean; - for omission of which have rules and fines placed in each of the tool-houses, regularly enforced, and payment demanded for each fine on the labourers' pay-day. At Bicton, a book is kept for entering each fine, and a separate account given of each fine, and for what, or why, it was enforced; annually, Lady Rolle doubles the amount so collected, and if good order has been kept, and only a small sum so collected, her ladyship trebles the amount. I add my own mite, and each foreman theirs, as a sort of compound for any matter that may have slipped our memories, &c; the amount is then placed in the Savings Bank, as a reserve sum in case of illness, etc. We have the same order and regulation kept in each tool-shed, that is to say, the tool-shed of each department - that I need here describe only one.

The tool-shed of the hothouse and flower-garden department is a lean-to shed at the back of a hot-house, substantially built, and covered with slate: - length, fifty-four feet; width, thirteen feet; height at back, fifteen feet; and height in front, nine feet; paved all through with Yorkshire flagstones, which are neatly swept up every night, the last thing, and washed every Saturday, thoroughly. There is a door at each end, and one in the centre of the front wall, and a window on each side of the centre door. Strong beams are thrown across from front to back, and strong planks laid on them, which form a useful loft for placing mats, stakes, laths for tally making, brooms, nets, canvas for covering and shading, etc. etc. Within two feet of the roof, against the back wall, is placed a row of pegs the whole length of the shed, for hanging the long-handled tools, such as grass and leaf rakes, long-handled Dutch hoes and iron rakes, &c; on the next row of pegs, the whole length of the shed, are placed the various kinds of draw hoes, tan forks, dung forks and prongs, strong forks for digging and surface stirring, spades and shovels of various kinds, pickaxes, mattocks and bills, dung drags, edging shears, &c; on a third row of pegs, still lower, are placed the water pots, all numbered, with initials as well, thus - B, G - 45, or 60, whatever the number may run to; underneath those is a row more of pegs, for placing the noses of the water pots - thus the back wall is furnished.

The front wall, half way, is furnished with shelves for placing shreds and nails, rope yarn, tallies, flower pegs, whetstones, rubber or scythe-stones, and many other small articles. Underneath those shelves are pegs for hanging the hammers, axes, saws, hatchets, mallets and stake-drivers, trowels, hand-forks, reels and lines, hedge-clipping shears, scythes, chisels, the various sizes of one-handed crane-necked hoes, crowbars, mops, hair-brushes and brooms, and various other articles. The scythes are hung up over the end beam, and on the other side without shelves the hand-barrows are placed; birch and heath brooms, both round and fan-shaped, that are in daily use; and various other articles. The garden rules are hung in a conspicuous place; also in the tool-house. Every tool is to be put into its proper or allotted place, every night, thoroughly cleansed; any omission of which subjects the defaulter to a fine. Each tool-house is under the same system. We have separate wheelbarrow sheds; sheds for placing soils in the dry, arranged in old casks; varieties of sand, pebbles, and flints, for potting purposes, with lofts over for flower pot stowage; - a shed for the liquid manure casks, which is one of the most essential and valuable of all.

A shod for placing the charred articles of all kinds, equal to the last; a potting shed; mushroom shed; stove shed; fruit rooms, and onion lofts, etc. etc. - Each and all are kept under the above regulations".