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shown at k. The beds of flowers along the pleasure-ground walk, in this 

 design, require no explanation ; and tlie kitchen-garden is evident from its 

 rectangular form. It is surrounded by a holly hedge, and, therefore, requires 

 very little effort on the part of the planter of the pleasure-ground to conceal 

 it. From the turn of the pleasure-ground walk at the principal entrance to 

 the kitchen-garden, it is obvious that this garden is not intended as a place to 

 walk in. In short, a kitchen-garden without walls is too like an arable field 

 anywhere, and, in London, too like a market-garden, to be much resorted to 

 as a place of recreation. This is more particularly the case where the plan is 

 a square of limited extent, as in the enclosure before us. The square form 

 and limited extent give the idea of confinement ; whereas a long narrow slip, 

 even though bounded by hedges, has more in it to amuse : on entering the 

 strip at one end, something may be lioped for before we reach the other ; but, 

 in the case of a small square, tlie whole is seen at once the moment of enter- 

 ing'; and, all the walks being equally short, and all the boundary fences 

 equally exposed to the eye, there is no desire to proceed farther. These 

 remarks as to the kitchen-garden apply chiefly in the case of a visiter walking 

 round the place for the first or second time : to the occupant, the crops and 

 the cropping are sovirces of particular interest. The conclusion that we wish 

 to be drawn in the way of principle is, that, for interesting the imagination, 

 and for picturesque effect, a small spot of ground, whether a plot of two or 

 three perches, or a residence of five or six acres, should extend in one of its 

 directions much more than in another: it should be much longer than it is 

 broad, and the direction of its length should be crooked rather than straight. 

 Design XXV. — A villa of seven acres, contained in a space nearly square. 

 378. Ground plan, Sfc. — This design, of which /r/. 178. is a ground plan, 

 is contributed by Mr. Glendinning, landscape-gardener, Turnham-green. The 

 form or outline of the ground, Mr. Glendinning observes, is the most un- 

 favourable for forming a place, of any that can be devised, for producing 

 effect ; but it is chosen as being the one which most frequently occurs in the 

 neighbourhood of towns, and particularly in the neighbourhood of new 

 towns, such as those of America and Australia. The plants mentioned are 

 those which would suit a moderately warm climate. The surface is supposed 

 to be even, but with an inclination from the house towards the pond and the 

 paddock. This pond is supplied with water from certain fountains in the 

 pleasure-ground, and these are supplied from a spring or brook, supposed to 

 be exterior to the property. The level of the kitchen-garden is considered as 

 being about 20 ft. above the level of the pond in the paddock ; and the house 

 stands on a platform, supposed to be 6 or 8 feet nbove the level of the kitchen- 

 garden. The paddock is supposed to be grazed by cows and a few sheep. 

 The edges of the pond Mr. Glendinning would plant with abundance of 

 ^rundo i)6nax, Phormium tenax, cannas, and hedychiums. The pond 

 should also, he says, swarm with fish; and should have some wild ducks, a 

 couple of swans, the bernacle goose (/^'nas erythropus L.), the Egyptian 

 goose (.^^nas segyptiaca L.), &c. The boundary fence to this residence, whe- 

 ther wooden pales or a stone or brick wall, should be such as to resist every 

 description of cattle; and within it a row of evergreen Lucombe oaks are 

 supposed to be planted at 20 ft. distance from the boundary, and the same 

 distance from one another. Within these, there should be a row of the ilex 

 oak, and a third row of hollies, yews, and Portugal laurels alternately. This 



