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hut, in cases where more art and expense are employed, like that before us, 

 instead of the shrubbery, there may be a conservatory of an architectural 

 character, to liarmonise with the house ; and, adjoining tliat, cither a conser- 

 vative wall, with or without a glazed veranda, or a wall with a common 

 veranda. The conservative wall is supposed to be covered with the finer 

 kinds of woody plants, and the supports of the veranda with climbers and 

 creepers. Through this wall, whether conservative or common, there may be 

 private entrances for the master and mistress to the stable-court and poultry- 

 yard, as indicated in fig. 120., which shows the plan of the ofl[ices on a larger 

 scale. In this plan, a is the entrance-portico to the house ; h, the drawing- 

 room, with three windows at one end (opening down to the floor, and serving 

 also as doors), which look into the conservatory. In this there is a broad 

 walk down the middle (c), terminating with a door in the centre of a semi- 

 circular end, outside of which are steps descending to a circular basin and 

 fountain, beyond which is the walk (e) in front of the conservative wall (//). 

 Instead of a basin and fountain, a circular stage of stone steps for containing 

 greenhouse plants in the summer season, may terminate in the centre in a 

 sundial, such as fig. 121.; and in that case the 

 basin and fountain may be transferred to the centre 

 of the flower-garden. The kind of fountain there 

 used may resemh\e fig. 122. This walk terminates 

 in an archway (i), which forms the main entrance 

 to the kitchen-garden ; and in the angle at the 

 right is the flower-garden (?), which is also shown 

 in the same position at k, in fig. 119. There is a 

 walk at k, in fig. 120., communicating with the 

 other parts of the pleasure-ground. There is an 

 open loggia with a seat, opposite the fountain ; and 

 on each side of this loggia is a small door, the one 

 forming an entrance for the mistress to the poultry- 

 yard, and the other an entrance for the master to 

 the stables; here are also summer water-closets. 

 In the reserve garden, the hot-houses and pits are 

 shown at m ; and the open area for composts, 

 manure, &c., at w : o is the gardener's kitchen ; 

 p, his living-room ; and q his private garden, near 

 which are a fuel-shed and a piivy : r is the 

 entrance to the stable-court, in which, at t, there 

 is the private entrance, mentioned above, from the 

 loggia. The stables, the two coach-houses, and a 



privy for the men-servants, are shown to the right and left of k. Here also 

 is the fireplace to the flues in the conservative wall. The poultry-court is 

 shown at s ; and at u, the private entrance to it from the loggia. The poultry- 

 yard is supplied with water from the overflowing of the basin and fountain, 

 carried to it imder ground. The poultry have access to the stable-court through 

 a small opening in the wall, that can be closed at pleasure ; and to the open 

 lawn and the kitchen-court, through other similar openings. The entrance 

 to the kitchen-garden is shown at i ; and there is also a servants' entrance 

 from the approach. Part of the branch road leading to the stables is shown at 

 w ; part of the approach, at x ; and part of the sweep round the oval, at y. 



