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use of the family in London, as well as Cheshunt; here is also a 

 regular staircase to the fruit-room. 



72, Harness-room, properly fitted up with every convenience, and 

 warmed by a stove. 



73, A lobby or court to a door which opens to the brook, for the 

 purpose of clearing out an excavation made in the bottom of the 

 channel, in order to intercept mud, and thus render the water quite 

 clear where it passes along the pleasure-ground, and is seen from 

 the library window and the grand walk (Fig. 5, p. 492). The whole 

 of any mud which may collect in the brook may be wheeled up a 

 plank through this door without dirtying the walk. 



74 74, The brook. 



75, Foot entrance to Mr. Pratt's house, the coachman's house, the 

 dairy, etc. 



76, Carriage entrance to the stable-court, garden offices, farm-yard, etc. 



77, Private entrance to the garden, over the rustic bridge shown in 

 Fig. 5. 



78, Masses of vitrified bricks and blocks of stone, distributed among 

 lawn and shrubs ; among which, large plants of agave, and other 

 rock exotics, are placed in the summer season, the pots and tubs 

 being concealed by covering them with the stones forming the 

 masses of rock-work. Here the semicircular space surrounded by 

 rock contains a collection of Himalayan rhododendrons, etc., in pots, 

 many of them seedlings which have not yet flowered. 



79 79, American shrubbery, consisting chiefly of rhododendrons, 

 azaleas, magnolias, etc., growing in the peat earth kept moist by the 

 brook. 



80, American garden consisting of choice American shrubs, and 

 American herbaceous plants. In the centre of the circle a handsome 

 tazza vase on a bold pedestal. 



81, Two semicircles for dahlias ; the surrounding compartments 

 containing a collection of roses. 



82, Garden of florist's flowers. 



83 83, Garden of herbaceous plants, chiefly annuals. The walks in all 

 these gardens are edged with slate. The bed SSf contains a colle^^ 

 tion of choice standard roses. 84, Dahlias. 



