2190. The gardener's office is necessarily omitted in small places; but it is an essential requisite wherever several men are kept. It should, if possible, adjoin the dwelling, and be connected with the seed-room, fruit-room and cellar, root-cellar, tool-house, and gardener's lodge. The furniture or appendages to this room are the writing-desk; a book-case, containing a small library to be lent out to the men; a map of the garden, and of all the grounds under the master's care; a herbarium press; and a cabinet for such specimens of plants as the gardener may find it useful to dry for his own use; or, as often happens, for that of his family; a drawing-board and T square; a board, to be used when new grounds are laying out, as a plane table (in geometry); a theodolite, a Gunter's chain, and measuring laths; with any similar articles, as spare thermometers, budding-knives, &c.
