134 THE VILLA GARDENER. 



leaving three quarters for flowers, fruits, and vegetables. This space might 

 either be cultivated by the master, with the assistance of a labourer and a 

 mowing-machine ; or by a head gardener, with a labourer, or the occasional 

 assistance of the house servant. In the case of this villa, however, as in 

 most others, very little can be said with certainty as to the expense of manage- 

 ment, unless the style in which the garden is to be kept be given as one of 

 the data on which the calculation is to be made. High keeping may always 

 be set down at double the expense of ordinary keeping. 



202. Remarks. — This residence, it is thought, would suit a citizen with a 

 large family of children, or with a number of sisters, or grown-up daugliters ; 

 as it would contain a fine display of flowers, and also abundant space for 

 amusement on the lawn, on which a tent might be placed during summer. If 

 the occupier were his own head-gardener, he would find something to do every 

 day in the year. Instead of ornamental trees on the lawn, there might be 

 fruit trees. The walls might also be planted. 



Design X'IV. To lay out and plant the garden of a double suburban villa, 

 in Porchester Terrace, Baijswater. 



203. General arrangement. — In the ground plan, j^<7. 63. the entrances to the 

 two houses are on opposite sides, on the same principle as 'n\fg. 43. in p. 104; 

 but here, the porches not being so conspicuous, and it being utterly impos- 

 sible to see any considei-able part of both at the same moment, from any 

 point of view, the illusion is more complete. As this figure represents the 

 ground plan of a double house and garden, one of Avhich we designed, built, 

 and laid out for ourselves, we shall, as a detailed illustration of the mode of 

 laying out and planting suburban gardens of this kind, describe it at some 

 length. The object was to build two small houses, which should appear as 

 one, and have some pretensions to architectural design; being, at the same 

 time, calculated for invalids, and, therefore, furnished with verandas extend- 

 ing nearly round the whole building, for taking exercise in during inclement 

 Aveather. The houses form part of a row of detached dwellings lying 

 parallel to Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, running north and south. Accord- 

 ing to the principles we have laid down, the diagonal of the square ought to 

 have been parallel to the road, instead of one of its sides; and we should 

 have placed the building in this manner: but, on stating our intentions to the 

 surveyor of the estate, from whom we took the ground on a ninety-nine 

 years' lease, he objected to it, as it did not appear pi-obable that it would be 

 generally followed in the other buildings in the same row, and, therefore, 

 was, in his opinion., likely to disfigure the terrace. 



204. Drainage, service-pipes, 8^c. — The soil being a loam on a subsoil of 

 gravel, no under-draining was required, except the drains for the water- 

 closets, back-kitchen, and rain-water pipes. For these purposes, each house 

 has a barrel-drain, communicating with the sewer in the road. The general 

 surface, and all the walks in the back garden, incline from one point at 

 a, to another at b, where there is a drain to a small sewer in the back 

 lane. From the point a, to c near the steps up to the front door, the surface 

 of the walk and the adjoining ground is nearly level, but slightly inclining to 

 c ; and from c to the street entrance {d) there is a gradual slope of above a 

 foot. There is also a very gradual slope of the general surface of the garden 

 (say of 3 in.), from the margin of the walk a c d, to the party wall which 

 Ibrnis the southern boundary of the garden ; and between c and d there is 



