serving as a Watchtower. 



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temptation of giving the gardener's house in this Magazine, 

 though it will appear also, with the villa, in our Encyclopaedia. 

 Both the villa and the house have been erected by the archi- 

 tect for himself; and, as we have had the pleasure of fre- 

 quently seeing both for several past years, we can answer for 

 their being as satisfactory in execution, and as convenient in 

 use, as they are admirable in design. 



Fig. 131. is the ground plan of the gardener's house; in 



which a is the living-room, an octagon 15 ft. in diameter, with 

 a fireplace i, and large closet or pantry, c. There is a trapdoor 

 in the floor at d, to a store-cellar below ; and in the centre of 

 the ceiling there is another trapdoor to a seed-loft and herb- 

 room in the roof. The step-ladder, by which the loft is entered, 

 stands under the trapdoor to the cellar, serving as a stair to it, 

 so that it is always at hand to be used for going into the loft. 

 It will be observed that this room commands the diagonal of 

 the space within the garden, and an entire square of space with- 

 out it, as indicated by the letters kk The bed-room, e, com- 

 mands by its two windows the south and north sides of the 

 wall, which lies east and west (or what is commonly called by 

 gardeners the south wall, from its aspect), as indicated by the 

 letters / /. There are, a scullery, f, with a sink, g ; a coal- 

 house, h ; and watercloset, i. From the two windows of 

 g and /, the east and west sides of the eastern boundary of a 

 square gai'den are commanded by the gardener, as indicated 

 by the letters m m. The gardener, or his wife, seated in 

 the centre of the living-room, with the bed-room and scul- 



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