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room, or common sitting-room of the family, looking on a flower-garden, to 

 which there is a descent from a balcony by three steps. The other small 

 room may be used as a business, waiting, or gentleman's room ; and the 

 situation of the staircase is indicated. The central hall is large for the size 

 of the house, and may, in summer, be used occasionally as a music-room, or 

 as a play-place, or dancing-room, for children. All the offices are on the 

 basement story, and the first and second floors are bed-rooms. If the garden 

 were larger, or even of its present size, if circumstances were favourable, a 

 small piece of water, supplied from a dripping rock, at e, would have a good 

 effect; and there might be a statue on a pedestal, surrounded with tazza 

 vases of flowers, in the centre of the flower-garden ; or, if water were abund- 

 ant, a fountain might be substituted for the statue. The rest of the garden, 

 with the exception of the surrounding border between the walk and the 

 boundary wall, is entirely of turf, varied by choice ornamental trees and 

 shrubs, including some fruit-trees and fruit shrubs. The standard roses, and 

 the fruit shrubs, such as gooseberries, currants, raspberries, &c., of which there 

 cannot be more than two or three plants of each kind, stand in small circles, 

 kept dug and manured, in order that they may produce their flowers and 

 fruit of good size; but the mulberry, the quince, the medlar, and the few 

 apples, pears, plums, &c., for which space can be aftbrded, may stand on the 

 grass. Against the walls are planted one or two peaches, nectarines, and 

 apricots ; and against the house, a fig-tree and a vine. The remainder of the 

 walls, and of the house, may be varied by roses and flowering creepers ; except 

 the more shady parts of the surrounding wall, which may be covered with the 

 common, the giant, and the variegated ivy. The surrounding border, between 

 the walk and the boundary-wall, is wliolly devoted to bulbs in spring and the 

 beginning of summer; Avith a row of Russian violets inside the box, for pro- 

 ducing fragrance in winter ; and patches of mignonette at regular distances, 

 to scent the air during summer. Among the groups of trees, and close by 

 their roots, common cowslips, snowdrops, wild violets, and wood anemones 

 may be planted to come up among the grass ; and, being only planted in a 

 few places, and these near the roots of the trees, they may be easily avoided 

 by the mower. In such a garden as this, small though it be, a very great 

 variety of trees and shrubs might be grown ; and the flower-garden is 

 sufiiciently large to produce a very good display of the finer kinds of hardy 

 flowers. 



