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t. Library and study. u, Gentlemen's room. v. Kitchen. 



10, Butler's pantry. y, Larder, and cold meat safe. z. Scullery. <t, Dairy. 



1, Stable. 2, Best privy, approached under trelliswork, from the lawn front. 3, Ser- 



vants' privy, with a screen wall, which completely protects the entrance door from being 

 seen from any part of the kitchen-court. 



4, Coach-house. 5, Coal-house. G, Entrance to the garden for workmen, and for the 

 convenience of wheeling the stable dung to the kitchen-garden by the side -road, o. 



7, Situation of the dung-pit, and liquid manure tank. 8, Open court, containing wood- 

 stack, pump, &c. 9, Boys' school, 33 ft. by 20 ft. 10, Girls' school, 28 ft. by 18 ft. 



1111, School gardens, intended to contain a collection of the more common English plants, 

 especially those of the locality, and also a collection of the more dangerous poisonous 

 plants ; the whole carefully named. 



12, Boys' yard with conveniences. 13, Girls' yard with conveniences. 



Design XXX. — Plan and viewsof the garden and grounds at Hendon Rectory, 

 with the mode of planting them. 



398. General observations. — This residence is selected in order to show 

 what may be effected on a very small spot by the choice of trees and shrubs 

 of a superior description, by the distribution of green-house plants in tubs 

 and pots, and also by combining the gardenesque with the picturesque. 

 There is nothing remarkable in the art or taste displayed in laying out this 

 place ; that having been done before the present occupier, the Rev. Theodore 

 Williams, had acquired a taste for botany and gardening. On the other 

 hand, the selection of the plants grown in pots, boxes, and vases, and their 

 disposition on the lawn ; the kinds of trees and shrubs planted in the masses 

 and groups ; and the manner in which these are managed ; display the 

 greatest taste, and a degree of care and high keeping in the management, 

 which is vei-y rarely to be met with in either small or large gardens. Mr. 

 Williams, considering that, in all works of art, and in all natural objects 

 which are to be examined singly, one of the greatest beauties is symmetry, 

 has those trees and shrubs which he manages in a gardenesque manner 

 brought into the most perfectly symmetrical forms, by tying the branches up 

 or down, inwards or outwards, as may be necessary, with small, almost invi- 

 sible, copper wire ; by which means, not only every plant in a tub or a pot is 

 perfectly symmetrical, whatsoever be its form, but those trees and shrubs 

 which stand singly on the lawn, or compose gardenesque masses, are indivi- 

 dually so treated ; and, standing as they do a few inches apart from each 

 other, the separate shape of each plant is seen by the spectator. The same 

 care is bestowed on the dahlias, which are here grown in large quantities, and 

 of sorts most of which were raised under the direction of Mr. Williams, from 

 seeds saved in his own garden. That which renders Hendon Rectory altoge- 

 ther unique in a gardening point of view is, a collection of Conifers in pots. 

 These Coniferse are in part set out on the lawn in the summer season, and in 

 part kept under glass ; and all of them are trained into the most beautifully 

 symmetrical shapes that are anywhere to be seen. As the pine and fir tribe 

 is liable to be attacked by insects in the summer season, it is the business of 

 one gardener to attend entirely to them and to the Cupressinae ; in other 

 words, to the pines, firs, cedars, araucarias, dammaras, cypresses, dacrydiums, 

 junipers, and arbor vitaes, in pots. They are thus kept regularly watered, 

 accurately tied into shape, and perfectly free from insects. Some of the 

 plants of this kind at Hendon Rectory are of great value ; one, a dacrydium, 

 in particular, is matchless for its size, beauty, and rarity. The same plan of 



