278 THE VILLA GARDENER. 



i. Orchidaceous house, with miniature rockworks and artiticiid liillocks, for terrestrial 



Orchidete ; and small basins and fountains, formed of shellwork, for aquatics. 

 j, Beds of reserve flowers. 

 I; Cold-pit. 



I, Spau-roofed green-house. 

 Jii m, Children's gardens. 

 n, Situation for a hot-bed, sun-ounded by a privet hedge, IS in. high. 



0, Compost and frame ground. 

 p, Two pigsties. 



q, Poultry-house, with pigeon-house over. This house has a span roof, wth a gable end 

 over the door ; and the triangular part of the gable end has four rows of holes for the 

 pigeons, the rows having narrow shelves in front for the pigeons to rest on, and an 

 enclosed space behind, 3 ft. in depth, for the nests. 



r. Two other pigsties. 



.s', Ilabbit-house. 



t. Tool-house, in which, also, the ducks are kept. 



It, Frame-ground. 



V, Asparagus-beds. 



w, Circle of grass where a tent may be fixed, for eating fruit in duiing the summer season. 



X X, Open drains, the soil of the garden being a retentive clay. 



rj. Pond. 



z, Fruit trees and fruit shrubs. 



370. Remarks. — The princiiial feature in this place, wliile it was in the occu- 

 pation of Mrs. Lawrence, was its profusion of ornament ; and its pi-hicipal 

 fault, its total want of repose. In the summer season especiall}', the brilliancy 

 of the flowers, the immense number of statues and vases, and the sparkling 

 waters of the various cascades, produced an effect perfectly dazzling. 



Design XXIII. — Plan and Description of Fortis Green, Miiswell Hill, with 

 a small Sheep-farm attached. 



371. Ground plan, ^c. — This villa, which was laid out, planted, and formerly 

 occupied by W. A. Nesfield, Esq., landscape gardener, is in a more retired 

 situation than is generally to be met with in the neighbourhood of London. 

 Figs. 171. and 172. (pp. 276., 277.) show the ground plan, of which the 

 following are the details : 



1, Entrance by a close gate, 6 ft. 6 in. higli. 



2, Avenue of sycamores, bounded on each side by a laurel hedge cut nearly perpendicular, 

 like a clipped hedge, and allowed to be high enough to screen the kitchen-garden, Stc. 

 There are other laurel hedges in the kitchen-garden marked /. 



3, Boundary, consisting of a quick fence and ditch. 



4, Entrance front of the house. 



5, Lawn, wliich descends very rapidly to the flat surface upon which is placed the house. In 

 consequence of the frontage being so long and narrow, it was impossible to place the house 

 upon the level (i. e. where the lawn is separated from the kitchen-garden), because the 

 south view, wliich is extremely desirable, would have been contracted to nearly half the 

 width whicli is now seen ; and, as the kitchen-garden and other requisites would have 

 destroyed the character of the view from the south, whicli now in itself assumes the 

 appearance of a park -like iield, there was no alternative, but that of adopting the diflerent 

 sites indicated on the i)lan, for the flower-garden, kitchen-garden, &c. ; particularly as there 

 is no view northwards. The objection, therefore, of descending to the carriage-sweep in 

 front of the house, is accounted for. 



6, Dug ground, containing a variety of ornamental trees and shrubs : the margins are-devoted 

 to low flowering shrubs, &c. 



7, Flower-garden, upon two levels. 



H, Walk connecting tlie kitchcn-gai'den with the flower-garden, along a row of liine trees. 



