SUBURBAN RESIDENCES, 



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by three step 

 gentleman's room 



The other small room may be used as a business, waiting, uv 

 and the situation of the staircase is indicated. 'I'he 



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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 chil- 

 dren. All the offices are on the basement story, and the first and second 

 floors are bed-rooms. If circumstances are favourable, a small piece of 

 water, supplied from a dripping rock, at e, would have a good effect ; and 

 there might be rock-work, or a statue ; there might also be a statue on a 

 pedestal, surrounded with tazza vases of flowers, in the centre of the flower- 

 garden; or, if water were abundant, 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. 



101. Laying out. — We shall suppose the piece of ground to be about 250 ft. 

 in length, and 100 ft. in breadth, and that the ground has been properly 

 levelled ; the next point is to provide efiicient drainage, as the pai"t of the 

 garden which is to be covered with grass will be of comparatively little use, 

 unless it be thoroughly drained, so as to be in a fit state for walking upon 

 nearly all the year. The levelling and draining having been completed, the 

 next thing to be done is to mark out the situation of the walks ; and these, as 

 the main object is to have a broad expanse of lawn, are kept as near the 

 boundary line as practicable. They may be made of gravel, or any otlier 

 similar material, or laid with flagstones or asphalte, in the way that will be 

 described under the head of Garden Operations. The flower garden may then 

 be staked out, and turf laid over the whole of the centre of the back garden 

 from 6 to e, a dug border being left at h, i, and k, if thought advisable; there 

 might be also dug beds at g and/; and the border between the walls and the 

 walks should be dug ground. The trees at /, 7«, 7i, o, and p, should, however, 

 be all planted on the grass. 



102. 7'he planting of a garden of this kind must depend, in some measure, 

 on the taste of the proprietor ; but as economy is to be our object, the follow- 

 ing forty-three kinds of trees and shrubs may be recommended for planting on 

 the grass, as being at once both cheap and ornamental, either in their general 

 appearance and the colour of their leaves, or in their flowers : 



