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the favorite residence of James I., and winds in tlie most agreeacla 

 and picturesque manner, under the shade of overhanging trees. 

 Having made several turns, it leads to a lane with a brook which iruus 

 parallel to the road, a foot-bridge across which forms th"; entrance tc 

 Mr. Harrison's cottage, as exhibited in the view Fig. 1. 



The ground occupied by Mr. Harrison's cottage and gardens is 

 about seven acres, exclusive of two adjoining grass fields. The 

 grounds lie entirely on one side of the house, as shown in the plan, 

 Fig. 13, in pp. 510, 511. The surface of the whole is flat, and nothing 

 is seen in the horizon in any direction but distant trees. The beauties 

 of the place, to a stranger at his first glance, appear of the quiet and 

 melancholy kind, as shown in the Figs. 2, 3 ; the one looking to the 

 right from the drawing-room window and the other to the left : but, 

 upon a nearer examination by a person conversant with the subjects of 

 botany and gardening, and knowing in what rural comfort consists, 

 these views will be found to be full of intense interest, and to afford 

 many instructive hints to the possessors of suburban villas or cottiiges. 

 In building the house and laying out the grounds, Mr. Harrison was 

 his own architect and Landscape Gardener; not only devising the 

 general design, but furnishing working-drawings of all the details of 

 the interior of the cottage. His reason for fixing on the present situa- 

 tion for the house was, the vicinity (the grounds joining) of a house 

 and walk belonging to a relation of his late wife. The circumstance 

 is mentioned as accounting in one so fond of a garden, for fixing on a 

 spot which had neither tree nor shrub in it when he first inhabited it. 

 Mr. Harrison informs us, and we record it for the use of amateurs 

 commencing, or extending, or improving gardens, that he commenced 

 his operations about thirty years ago, by purchasing, at a large nursery 

 sale, large lots of evergreens, not six inches high, in beds of one 

 hundred each, such as laurels, Portugal laurels, laurustinuses, bays, 

 hollies, &c. ; with many lots of deciduous trees, in smaller numbers, 

 which he planted in a nursery on his own ground ; and at intervals, as 

 he from time to time extended his garden, he took out every seconl 

 plant, which, with occasional particular trees and shrubs from nursery 

 grounds, constituted a continual supply for improvement and extension 

 This, with the hospital ground mentioned hereafter, furnished th? 



