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197. The reserve garden should contain a house 10 or 12 feet higli, to 

 preserve the myrtle, olive, and orange trees from frost during the winter. 

 This house, provided that no plants are kept in it but evei-greens, which, like 

 those above-mentioned, make their young wood during the summer, need not 

 have a glass roof, but only a glass front; in consequence of which the frost 

 will be very easily excluded by a very little fire heat. The chrysanthemums 

 and other plants may be kept in a pit without flues. 



198. Remarks. — Should it be wished to have a coach-house and stables, 

 they might be formed near the kitchen entrance at c, the stable being on a 

 level with the sunk area and the coach-house over it. The idea of having the 

 stable under the coach-house is not one likely to be familiar to the general 

 reader; nevertheless, there is a detached house in Porchester Terrace, where, 

 from the declivity of the surface being in the direction of the road, the line 

 of frontage is several feet lower at one end than it is at the other; and at this 

 lower end an entrance is made to the stable and coach-house, which, by exca- 

 vating the ground a little, are obtained under the principal floor of the house. 

 To render this arrangement more clear to the reader, we refer to the longitu- 

 dinal section {fig. 58.), in which the line n n shows the declivity of the street ; 



o, the principal entrance which is at one end ; p, the entrance to the stables 

 and the garden, which is at the opposite end; q, lines showing the depth to 

 which the ground is excavated opposite the doors of the stable and coach- 

 house, and to which there is a gradual slope from the street entrance ; r, 

 dotted lines, showing the level of the floor of the coach-house and stables ; 

 and s, the level of the principal floor of the house. 



Design XIII. To lay out and plant the grounds of a detached house, occu- 

 pying about an acre and three quarters. 



199. The general form is that of a parallelogram, as shown mfig. 59. In 

 this plan the street entrance is by the veranda (h) to the porch (6), which 

 leads to the staircase (c), dining-room (</), library (e), drawing-room (/), and 

 green-house, heated from the back of the drawing-room and library fires {g). 

 The kitchen-court is shown at h, and steps from the drawing-room to the lawn 

 at i. At k, are steps down to the kitchen area, for servants; and at I, a flight 

 of steps up to the green-house, for the gardener. The green-house has one 

 glass door to the drawing-room, and another to the library ; and, where the 

 waste heat is not sufficient to keep out the frost, recourse is supposed to be 

 had to one of Joyce's stoves, or some other apparatus for burning charcoal. 

 This last resource, however, will seldom be necessary, if, every night during 



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