Ice houses, bee houses and dove houses

2210. Collecting and preserving ice, rearing bees, &c., however unsuitable or discordant they may appear, it has long been the custom to delegate to the care of the gardener. In some cases also he has the care of the dove-house, fish-ponds, aviary, a menagerie of wild beasts, and places for rabbits, &c.; but we shall only consider the ice-house, apiary, and aviary, as legitimately belonging to gardening, leaving the others to the care of the gamekeeper, or to constitute a particular department in domestic or rural economy. That the subject of anomalous buildings may not occur again, we shall here conclude it by treating also of their management.