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at g, is a seat. The walk around the lawn is also a 

 carriage road, affording entrance and egress from the rear 

 of the grounds, for garden purposes, as well as from the 

 front of the house. At h, is situated the ice-house ; d, 

 hot-beds ; j, bleaching green ; i, gardener's house, etc. In 

 the rear of the latter are the stables, which are not shown 

 on the plan. 



The embellished farm {^ferme ornee) is a pretty mode 

 of combining something of the beauty of the landscape 

 garden with the utility of the farm, and we hope to see 

 small country seats of this kind become more general. As 

 regards profit in farming, of course, all modes of arranging 

 or distributing land are inferior to simple square fields ; 

 on account of the greater facility of working the land in 

 rectangular plots. But we suppose the owner of the small 

 ornamental farm to be one with whom profit is not the 

 first and only consideration, but who desires to unite 

 with it something to gratify his taste, and to give a higher 

 charm to his rural occupations. In Fig. 27, is shown part 

 of an embellished farm, treated in the picturesque style 

 throughout. The various trees, under grass or tillage, are 

 divided and bounded by winding roads, a, bordered by 

 hedges of buckthorn, cedar, and hawthorn, instead of 

 wooden fences ; the roads being wide enough to afford 

 a pleasant drive or walk, so as to allow the owner or 

 visitor to enjoy at the same time an agreeable circuit, and 

 a glance at all the various crops and modes of culture. 

 In the plan before us, the approach from the public road 

 is at h ; the dwelling at c ; the barns and farna-buil dings 

 at d; the kitchen garden at e; and the orchard at /. 

 About the house are distributed some groups of trees, and 

 here the fields, g, are kept in grass, and are either mown 



