2195. The seed-rooms or garrets may consist of one for drying and cleaning seeds; one for drying bulbous roots, as onions, hyacinths, &c.; and one for drying fruits, or preserving them there. In all of these rooms there should be hooks from the roof for hanging bundles of pot-herbs, branches of seeds, sieves, bags, &c., and a movable table or counter in the centre of each, with lattice-shelves below, for holding sieves of roots, seeds, or fruits. A very small winnowing machine, and a couple of grooved cylinders to act as a threshing machine, or a Meikle's hand threshing machine (fig. 661.), worked by two men, may be added to the seed-room. Supposing these rooms to form one wing to the gardener's house, the office opening into his kitchen; then the other wing may consist of a tool-house and men's living-room on the ground-floor; cellars for potatoes and fuel for their use under, and sleeping-apartments over, with a door, lobby, and stair, corresponding with the other wing.
