LAYING OUT GARDENS. 



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171. A walk, six feet wide, separates the quarters from the west border, on 

 which lettuces, radishes, early potatoes, early peas and beans, kidney-beans, 

 early strawberries, and early horse-carrots, are to be cultivated. 



172. Where it can be so arranged, the garden should be an oblong 

 square : 100 yards from east to west, and 30 yards from north to south, is 

 a very convenient form, and about the joroportions laid down in the accom- 

 panying plan. This allows the vegetables to range from north to south, which 

 is always to be preferred, otherwise they get drawn to one side by the side- 



of the sun. — 1, The site of 



light 



the house ; 2, the conservatory ; 

 3, a clump of trees and shrubs 

 fronting the main entrance; 4, 

 coach-house and stables ; 5, tool- 

 house; 6, manure and frame 

 yard ; 7, flower - borders and 

 shrubberies ; 8, ferns and Ame- 

 rican plants ; 9, rose clumps ; 



10, circular beds for hollyhocks, 

 dahlias, and other free-blooming 

 plants in summer, and thinly 

 planted with evergreens to take 

 off the nakedness in winter ; 



11, arbour ; 12, flower - beds ; 

 13, lawn ; 14, paths ; 15, beds 

 for placing out flowers in pots ; 

 IC, kitchen-gardens ; 17, peach 

 wall ; 18, east wall for plums, 

 cherries, and pears. 



173. It is sometimes advantageous to have buildings and even groups of 



large trees contiguous to gardens ; where these are situated to the north, they 

 not only break and turn aside the cold winds, but concentrate the heat of the 

 sun, a great advantage when early crops are required. They also preserve the 

 crops dra-ing winter. Buildings have this advantage over trees, that they 

 afford the shelter without robbing the soil of the food necessary for its legiti- 

 mate crop. In the accompanying plan it will be observed that the whole frontage 

 north of the house is laid out as lawn, and to the south, that the breadth of 

 the house and offices is disposed in the same way ; a single winding path 

 running through it. East of the house lie the conservatory and offices, sheltered 

 by a belt of shrubbery which runs round the whole lawn. The kitchen-gardens 

 occupy the north-west side of the ground, and adjoining, at the southern 

 extremity, are vineries, forcing- houses, and orchard-houses. The northern 

 boundary is a dwarf wall with green iron ramngs. 



174. A very similar plan to the preceding one, designed also by Mr. Chitty, 

 covers an area of half an acre. Here less space is devoted to the front lawn, 

 and probably the kitchen-garden is smallor than it might be. 



