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THE VILLA GARDENER. 



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desiderata of the place, the next business of the landscape-gardener is to 

 form a working plan for laying out the proposed improvements ; the situation 

 of the house, the kitchen-garden, and the entrance-lodge, being already fixed 

 on, as before indicated. We shall suppose that the numbered sticks at the 

 angles of the squares still remain on the ground ; because it is more conve- 

 nient to adopt squares of the same dimensions as those already marked on the 

 ground in the plan on which we are to trace the roads; walks, kitchen-garden, 

 plantations, &c., in detail. The sides of the squares, also, in this plan, must 

 (in order to admit of readily indicating objects with reference to the points of 

 the compass) be directly east and west, and north and south. It will often 

 happen that the same plan which is used to indicate the levels of the surface, 

 and the principal points of view, and to afford data for the description given 

 in p. 201., will serve also for tracing the lines which constitute the working 

 plan ; but, in the present case, the plan {fg. 106., p. 200.) is on so small a scale, 

 that, if we were to trace the necessary lines upon it, it would become confused, 

 and unfit for our purpose. Fig. 119., therefore, must be had recourse to; and 

 we shall go over the different lines in it, and briefly give our reasons for pro- 

 ducing them. 



302. llie position of the house (a) and lodge (c) being fixed on, the road 

 between them might either have been made straight or curved. If it had 

 been straight, it would have been inconsistent with this style of art ; and, if 

 the grand sweep which it takes had been bent to the right instead of to the 

 left, as at d, it would have interfered with the arrangements connected with 

 the offices and the kitchen-garden. Before arriving at the entrance-front of the 



