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and the gardener's liouse. The range for two forcing-houses, with a green- 

 house between, is placed against the wall on the south side of the kitchen- 

 garden, and approached in front by a walk from the lawn or pleasure-ground. 

 On the western front of the house is a colonnade, in front of which a terrace 

 walk extends on each side of the extremity of the lawn ; on the verge of which 

 are small clumps and vases, or other ornamental devices, in alternate succes- 

 sion. On the farther side of the lawn are a pond with a fountain, and a 

 summer-house or billiard-room behind it. The small circles in the shrubbery 

 on each side of the summer-house, at r r, are intended for statues, or some 

 kind of ornamental structure." See the isometrical vievf,fg. 129. 



Mr. Rutger continues : " I beg here to observe, that, as a general principle, 

 I would not admit of walks crossing each other at right angles, or nearly so, 

 where it can possibly be avoided ; and that, where it cannot, I should conceal 

 the angles formed by their intersections with shrubs, planted as closely as 

 possible to the walks. In the ground plan (Jiff. 128.), it will be perceived 

 that, on three sides or corners of the walks which cross each other at s s, this 

 principle is attended to ; and that on the fourth side I have indicated a vase, 

 or something of that kind, for the sake of variety, though I think that shrubs 

 would be better." 



ffl, Carriage entrance from the Brighton road. 



b. Private foot entrance for the family. 



c. Private foot entrance for the domestics. 



d. Stable-court, with coachman's lodgings over the harness-room ; a three-stalled stable, 



double coach-house, &c. 



e. Poultry-yard, wth a private entrance for the master and mistress at I, and an entrance 



for domestics at q. 



f. Laundry and drying-ground, in which there may be a brewhouse and a cider-mill, if 



thought requisite. 



g. Forcing and reserve ground, the range of building on the north side including the gar- 



dener's house, mushroom-shed, and tool-house. 



/(, Peach-house and vinery, having a greenhouse between them, and behind the kitchen- 

 garden, in which are the sheds and furnaces. 



i. Summer-house. k. Conservatory. 



/, The family's private entrance to the poultry-yard ; and through it to the laundry (/), or 

 to the stable-court (d). 



m. Furnace-shed and potting shed for the conservatory ; behind which is a water-closet ; 

 the whole concealed from the entrance approach by evergreens. The water-closet is 

 entered by a concealed door in the back wall of the conservatory, and it has also another 

 door on the outside ; so that no person need come out by the same door by which he 

 went in. 



n. Gardener's house, with an entrance from the public road, and another from the reserve- 

 ground. 



0, Mushroom-cellar, with fruit-room over it. In this cellar may also be forced rhubarb, 

 chicory, &c. 



p. Tool-house and poultry-shed. 



The ice is supposed to be kept in one of the cellars under the right wing of the house. 



.330. Remarks. — There is scarcely a single point in this design that we 

 would wish to alter, with the exception of the termination of the terrace walk 

 at t in Jig. 128. We would have this walk terminate either in an alcove, and 

 give up altogether the entrance in that quarter to the kitchen-garden ; or we 

 would cany it on to the kitchen-garden wall, and terminate it there in an 

 archway, which should form an entrance to the kitchen-garden. The oppo- 



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