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means of extensions and improvements at no other expense than labor 

 which, when completed, gave the place the appearance of an old 

 garden ; the plants being larger than could be obtained, or, if obtained, 

 safely transplanted, from nurseries. This is an important considera- 

 tion, in addition to that of economy, well worth the attention of 

 amateur improvers of grounds or gardens. 



By inspecting the plan. Fig 4, it will be found that the house con- 

 tains, on the ground floor, three good living rooms, and two other 

 rooms (?i and g) particularly appropriate to the residence of an ama- 

 teur fond of botany and gardening ; and that it is replete with every 

 description of accommodation and convenience requisite for the enjoy- 

 ment of all the comforts and luxuries that a man of taste can desire for 

 himself or his friends. 



In laying out the grounds, the first object was to insure agricultural 

 •and gardening comforts; and hence the completeness of the farm-yard, 

 and of the hot-house and- frame departments, as exhibited in the plan, 

 Fig. 6. On the side of the grounds opposite to the hot-houses and 

 flower-garden are the kitchen-garden and orchard ; and though in most 

 situations it would have been more convenient to have hud the farm 

 buildings, and kitchen garden, and hot-houses on the same side as the 

 kitchen offices, yet in this case no inconvenience results from their 

 separation; because the public road, as will be seen by the plan. Fig. 

 13, forms a ready medium of communication between them, in cases in 

 which the communication through the ornamented ground would be 

 unsightly or inconvenient. In arranging the pleasure-ground, the 

 great object, as in all similar cases, was to introduce as much variety 

 as could be conveniently done in a comparatively limited space. This 

 has been effected chiefly by distributing over the lawn a collection of 

 trees and shrubs ; by forming a small piece of water, and disposing of 

 the earth excavated into hilly inequalities ; and by walks leading to 

 different points of view, indicated by different kinds of covered scats o- 

 garden structures. In conducting the walks, and distributing the trees 

 and shrubs, considerable skill and taste have been displayed in conceal- 

 ing the distant walks, and those which cross the lawn in different 

 directions, from the windows of the living-rooms ; and also in never 

 showing any walk but the one which is being walked on, to a spectator 

 making the circuit of the PTonndsj 



