74 Landscape Gardening 



deciduous trees. At e, is a picturesque orchard, in which 

 the fruil trees are planted in groups instead of straight lines, 

 for the sake of effect. Directly under the windows of the 

 drawing-room is the flower garden, /; and 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; 

 /, 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 considera- 

 tion, but who desires to unite with it something to gratify 

 his taste, and to give a higher charm to his rural occupa- 

 tions. In Fig. 15, is shown part of an embellished farm, 

 treated in the picturesque style throughout. The various 

 fields, 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 b; the dwelling at c; the barns and 

 farm-buildings 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 or pastured. The fields in crops are desig- 

 nated /?, on the plan; and a few picturesque groups of trees 

 are planted, or allowed to remain, in these, to keep up the 

 general character of the place. A low dell, or rocky thicket, 



