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326. The walks, the situation of the trees, Sfc, are easily marked out on the 

 ground, by driving stakes or pins in the direction of the lines representing them 

 in the plan. — This is rendered easy by the squares already marked out and 

 indicated on the ground, and by stakes, with numbers on them, having been 

 driven in at the angles formed by^the intersecting lines of the squares. If 

 these squares should not have been formed, or if the stakes indicating them 

 should have been taken up, or partly misplaced, then the squares ought to be 

 laid out afresh, remembering to keep the imaginary lines which form their 

 sides correctly north and south, and east and west. 



SECTION II. 



DESIGNS FOR COUNTRY VILLAS; WITH THEIR PLANTING, CULTURE, 



AND RENOVATION. 



327. Counrty villas may be divided into two classes, viz. small country 

 villas, which have no farm attached ; and large country villas, which have a 

 small farm attached to them, or, at any rate, a paddock for feeding a cow or 

 a couple of horses. Of the first kind we shall give three or four imaginary 

 designs by Mr. Rutger, many years land-steward to Sir John St. Aubyn ; and 

 one or two by Mr. Lamb, a well-known architect : after which we shall give 

 one or two designs of places actually in existence. Of the larger villas we 

 shall give very few examples which have not been actually executed. 



Subsection I. — Small Country Villas. 



328. Small country villas which have no fields attached to them, have 

 seldom very extensive pleasure-grounds ; and therefore the principal diflTer- 

 ence between them consists in the various ways that may be adopted of laying 

 out their flower-gardens ; for all kitchen-gardens must be very nearly alike, 

 and the shrubbery in a small place is nearly always only a belt. A very few 

 designs will, therefore, be sufiicient to show the general style of villas of this 

 kind. 



Design XV. — To lay out a piece of ground, of a regular form, and two 

 acres in extent, as a small country villa. 



329. Ground plan. — Though this villa, figs. 128. and 129., is bounded by 

 straight lines, and, being rectangular, might form a portion of ground along 

 any road, yet the manner in which the buildings are disposed prevents it from 

 being considered as belonging to the class of suburban villas. The design is 

 by Mr. Rutger, and, like all that gentleman's ground plans, is remarkable for 

 convenience of arrangement. 



"The ornamental part of this design," Mr. Rutger observes, "maybe 

 considered as in a mixed style, partly geometrical and partly irregular. The 

 approach is by a lodge entrance ; and it passes on from the entrance door of 

 the house to the stable-yard, and out again into the public road. On the left 

 of the house are a conservatory and its fireplace, &c., hidden at the back by a 

 shrubbery. The wing on the right, also hidden by shrubs, is for the kitchen 

 offices. There are two private entrances from the main road, that on the left 



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