28 Plan of the Kitchen-Garden at Annat. 



to you on this subject, the school-room in Blackwood village 

 has been fitted up as a chapel also, in which divine service is 

 performed twice every Sunday to respectable congregations ; 

 and in order to offend the prejudices of none, and to include 

 within its benefits as many as possible, this service is meant 

 to be practical rather than theoretical; but where doctrinal 

 points are necessarily touched upon, the express words of 

 Scripture are preferably used. A Sunday school has been 

 lately established in the same village, and a society for free 

 enquiry, which promises to flourish, has held its weekly meet- 

 ings by permission in the school-room, and they are meant to 

 be continued every Wednesday evening. 



I am. Sir, yours truly, John H. Moggridge. 



Woodfield, Monmouthshire^ Dec. 12. 1828. 



We shall have great pleasure in complying with the request 

 of our much valued correspondent in a future Number ; at pre- 

 sent (Jan. 19.), having staid rather long in Paris, we have 

 hardly time to prepare the present for the press. — Cond. 



Art. IX. Plan of the Kitchen-Garden at Annat. 

 By Mr. Archibald Gorrie, C.M.H.S. 



Sir, 



I BELIEVE with your correspondent, Mr. W^ilson (Vol. IV. 

 p. 353.), that it is both possible and desirable to make " a 

 kitchen-garden as agreeable and as interesting a scene as any 

 other part of a country residence." Utility is very closely 

 connected with our ideas of beauty, and I know of no spot of 

 ground within the landlord's demesnes, of equal value with the 

 kitchen and fruit garden. 



Irregular figures, which resemble the freaks of nature, can- 

 not indeed with propriety be admitted within a walled garden. 

 To facilitate the operation of straight row planting, it is in 

 some degree necessary to have the plots rectilinear, at least on 

 two sides. An opinion too prevails, that walls which form any 

 segment of a circle promote injurious reverberation of winds, 

 and hence, in a majority of instances, straight-lined walls are 

 adopted ; and this regularity in the building must be accom- 

 panied by a similar style in the ground plots. Where "every 

 alley must have its brother," the variety which pleases i» 

 viewing natural objects is absent. 



After long experience, I cannot subscribe to an opinion 

 which I believe to be pretty general, that curvilinear walls are 



