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THE VILLA GARDENER. 



Design XXII. — Plan and Deacrijyfion of the Villa formerly occupied by 



Mrs. Lawrence at Drayton Green. 

 365. Ground plan, Sfc. — Fiy. 1(30. shows the general arrangement of the 

 house and grounds ; and the following are the details : 



French wine cellar, entered through the 

 ale and spirit cellar ; from which there 

 are stairs leading to the wine-cellar 

 below. 



Kitchen. j), Butler's pantry. 



w. 



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o, 



q. Back kitchen, serving also as a scullery 



to the dairy. 

 r. Dairy. 



Housekeeper's room. 

 t. Dust-bin. 

 u. Cinder-bin. 

 ?', Bin for refuse which cannot be burned or 



turned into manure. 

 w. Coal- house. 



X, Lumber-house for bottles, hampers, &c. 

 y, Knife-house ; adjoining which is a privy 



for the family 

 s. Wood-house, adjoining which is a privy 



for the servants. 



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rf. Village lane. 



e. Entrance to the house under a covered 



way ; at the end of which, on each side 



of the hall door, is a niche, with a 



statue. 

 /, Entrance lobby. 

 «7, Hall and staircase. 

 h, Dj-awingroom, opening under a veranda 



to the lawn. 

 Dining-room, opening into the garden 



walk. 

 I; Boudoir, or morning room. 

 I, Breakfast-room and library, one of the 



windows opening to the front garden, 



which is ornamented with a border, and 



beds of low-growing peat-earth shrubs, 



intermixed with spring-flowering bulbs 



and standard roses. 

 m. Store closet under the staircase. 



366. General obserrations. — This villa may be said to occupy in all about 

 twenty-eight acres. The house, stable offices, and decorated grounds, stand 

 on about two acres ; and at the distance of about two or three hundred yards, 

 across the road, are the kitchen-garden, poultry-houses, and piggeries, occu- 

 pying nearly two acres ; and two pasture fields, containing twenty-four acres. 

 The ornamented grounds have an even surface, which has the disadvantage of 

 rising somewhat from the house to the further extremity of the lawn. It is 

 bounded on the south by another villa of the same kind; and on the north and 

 east by grass fields. The disadvantage of the ground sloping to the house is 

 counteracted, by lowering the walk that crosses immediately in front of the 

 house, and sloping the ground from the drawing-room veranda to that walk; 

 beyond which the lawn rises gently and gradually, till, at the cross walk at the 

 farther extremity, it is probably 6 ft. higher than the level of the drawing- 

 room floor. Though, wheii the lawn rises in this manner from the house, it 

 detracts from the expression of dignity, considering the villa as a whole, yet, 

 viewing the lawn as an arena for the display of plants, statues, and other 



interesting objects, from the windows of the draw- 

 ing-room, it has an advantage in that point of view 

 over a falling svirface : it is also well sometimes to 

 have a lawn of this kind, in order to produce variety. 

 367. Description of the grounds. — 



Entering the lawn from the drawing-room (h), we find a 

 gentle descent from the veranda to the walk. Turning to 

 the right, at the angle at 1, we observe the foliated vase 

 Jig. 161., the base of which is concealed by a plant of tree 

 ivy ; proceeding onwards towards 2, and 4, we pass two 

 ornamental pedestals and vases. We are now at a sufficient 

 distance from the garden front of the house, to see it to 

 advantage by turning round ; and, if we step on the lawn 

 to the point 4, we shall find the view f(/. 162., to the left 



