118 THE VILLA GARDENER, 



Manaqement. — If the occupier intends to manage tins garden himself, he 

 must be at home every day throughout the year ; with the exception, perhaps, 

 of a month or two during summer, when his forced trees, having yielded 

 their crops, are in a dormant state ; and when he may commit the care of his 

 reserve department, and of his green-house, to a commercial gardener in the 

 neighbourhood. If he employs a gardener, it must be one who thoroughly 

 understands his profession, and who is so decidedly steady and regular in his 

 habits, that the utmost confidence may be placed in him. The neglect, for 

 one night, during severe frost, of the fire which heats the !iot-water apparatus, 

 or the making of too large a fire in a mild night, would be sufficient to destroy 

 a whole crop of either peaches or grapes. For this reason, not only a re- 

 markably steady man must be employed as gardener, but one who lives either 

 in the house, or near at hand ; so that he may be able to attend the fires, 

 when necessary, at any hour of the night. Even during the day, there is 

 great danger of overheating forcing-houses, either by sun heat alone, or by 

 the joint effect of sun heat and fire heat ; so that in the day time the occupier 

 or his gardener will require to be as vigilant as during the night. 



Design XI. — 7o hy out a double suburban villa, with (ireen-houses attached. 



180. General arrangement. — In order to prevent both the entrances a a in 

 fig. 50. from being seen at once, it requires a considerable projection between 



them, as shown at b b ; or, instead of that projection, a mass of evergreen 

 trees and shrubs. The projection may either be some additional conveniences 

 to each house ; or it may be a span-roofed greenhouse, with glass in front 

 and on the sides, and separated by a wall to be covered with evergreens, such 

 as camellias, myrtles, or oranges, as in the plan before us, at c c. Or, to 

 avoid the risk of one of the occupants not paying the same attention to his 

 green-house as the other, then, to insure a good effect from the exterior, and 

 the proper cultivation of the plants, the green-house may be exclusively in 

 the possession of the occupier of one of the houses, though equally looked 

 into from the windows of both of them. 



181. The principal object of the possessors of these houses, with reference 

 to their gardens, is supposed to be, as the green-house would seem to indicate, 

 ornamental display; for which reason, the ground is principally laid down in 

 grass, and sprinkled with ornamental shrubs and low trees ; the latter, as 

 before observed, being indicated by a darker shade than the shrubs. On the 

 supposition that the ground belonging to the aHjoining houses is planted with 

 a view to the same object, then the occupiers of the houses shown in fig. 50. 

 should study to introduce species and varieties different from those in the 

 adjoining gardens, but, at the same time, a sufficient number of the same kinds 

 to preserve harmony in the general view of the whole, to a person passing 

 along the street. If we suppose, for a moment, that, in one garden, small 

 select trees, such as thorns, crabs, cypresses, &c., were planted, and in the, 

 adjoining garden large rapid-growing forest trees, such as poplars, limes, 

 elms, &c., it must be evident that the contrast in appearance between the two 

 gardens would destroy all unity of effect in the general view of the street; 

 while the shade produced by the large trees of one garden, on the low and 

 more choice kinds in the other, would so materially injure their growth as to 

 prevent them from flowering, or being at all ornamental. " What, then, is to 

 be done," it may be asked, " when a neighbour on the south side of our 

 garden chooses to plant a row of poplars, so as to throw our garden completely 



