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handsome fountain or vase, and have an outlet into the kitchen -garden. It 

 might also branch off to the stables, and thus bring the whole home attrac- 

 tions within easy and comfortable access of the dwelling-house in all weathers. 

 The trame-ground should be placed close to the stables, and be lai-ge enough 

 to answer the pui-poses of a soil-yard as well as a reserve garden. 



126. Having thus settled the position of all the necessary buildings, the nest 

 point is the sewage-removal and vv'ater-supply. All the sewage from house 

 and stables should be conveyed into one large tank in the frame-ground. In 

 no other country is thei-e such waste of the richest manure as in these islands, 

 ■where it may be safely asserted that many millions sterling annually run down 

 our brooks, poisoning man and beast ; for, when so disposed of, the liquid 

 manure thrown away is truly "matter in the wrong place, "as Lord Palmerston 

 has well said. Apphed in a proper state of dilution, nothing can be more 

 valuable to growing crops of every description. The tank would, of coui-se, 

 be covered or domed over, furnished with a pump for raising the liquid, and 

 an outlet for an overflow, — which, however, with proper management, would 

 seldom be required, 



127. In many situations, especially on the side of a hill, abundance of water is 

 to be found at a higher elevation than the house ; and in these cases the supply 

 of water to house and garden is simply and easily effected. All that is needful 

 is to form a reservoir, and lay down pipes ; generall}^, however, spring-water 

 has to be raised from a considerable depth. The great point is to form 

 the tank high enough to enable the water to come down by its own specific 

 gra\'ity to wherever it is wanted afterwards. On the same principle, tanks 

 for rain-water should be built as much as possible above the level of the surface, 

 to obviate the necessity of raising it for use ; and as the operation of laying 

 down pipes involves the removal of large quantities of earth, this should always 

 precede any direct operations on the garden. The position of fountains, orna- 

 mental water, and waterfalls, should also be determined, in order that their 

 futm-e supply may be provided for, by laying the necessary pipes at once. The 

 direction of the sewei-s, drains, and water-pipes should also be carefully 

 dehneated on the plan, as well as indicated on the grounds by specific marks. 



128. All modern writers and practitioners now agi-ee that the pleasure- 

 garden should be contiguous to the house. The fact of its contiguity to the 

 mansion will have much influence upon the character of the garden. Certain 

 st3des of architecture require corresponding styles of gardening as thou- proper 

 accompaniments. An imposing and highly-finished facade seems to demand 

 formal terraces and geometric gai'dens as a proper and ^congruous base. 

 Hence we have Gothic, Italian, French, and Dutch styles of gardening, which 

 are all branches of the formal or geometric style, and may be described as 

 presenting regular forms, or groups of figures, arranged in mathematical lines, 

 either regularly straight or curved, and at regulated distances. This is much 

 the most useful and effective style of flower-garden. The groups may be sunk 

 beneath the surface, when they are called Dutch gardens ; or the figures can 

 be edged with stone or tileS; and thus be constituted architectural gardens ; 



