OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



means that his standard pears and dwarf 

 fruits and grapevines shall come in for a share 

 of the benefit. 



I establish it upon the level plateau of land 

 to the southward of his cattle-yard, giving it 

 the advantage of shelter from the stables, the 

 cold grapery, the compost-shed, the hot-house 

 and the hennery— as will appear by consulting 

 the second drawing of Mr. Urban's fifty acres, 

 after the improvements are matured. 



The cold grapery is marked F; the hot- 

 house, E, whose fire, by proper adjustment of 

 one of its flues, gives warmth to the poultry- 

 house, which (marked D) is immediately ad- 

 joining. A sheltered spot for hot-bed and 

 compost-heap is provided in a position con- 

 venient to the manure deposits of the cattle- 

 yard. A broad walk, at least eight feet in 

 width, traverses the garden, and divides near 

 the southern border, to give place to a pictu- 

 resque coppice of trees and shrubs, whose in- 

 terior border is planted with hardy and showy 

 herbaceous flowers; these again are hemmed 

 in every summer-time by a narrower and ex- 

 terior border of the gayest of "bedding" 

 plants. Behind, and to the southward of the 

 garden-paling or hedge is a green lane, serving 

 to connect the pasture-land by the high-road, 



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