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412. Remarks. — AVe have dwelt longer on the subject of renovating the 

 paddock than those will think necessary who are not aware how much the 

 difference of produce depends on management. Our wish is to see the pad- 

 dock in as high order and keeping, in its way, as anj' part of the pleasure- 

 ground or the kitchen-gavden ; and, well knowing how much of the comfort 

 of a villa residence depends on the abundance and excellence of the milk and 

 butter it produces, we feel that we can scarcely sufficiently impress our 

 readers with the importance of bringing their grass fields into the highest 

 state of cultivation, and afterwards keeping them in the highest order. 



413. In renovating the kitchen-garden, the reader should bear in mind the 

 importance of not having the roots of the trees too deep in the soil, and that, 

 should this be the case, he must either take up and replant, or renew ; unless, 

 which is very rarely the case, he can reduce the surface of the garden so as 

 to leave all the main roots of the trees at a proper distance beneath it. The 

 soil of the kitchen-garden may, as before observed, be restored by rest, with- 

 out any crop whatever ; by the substitution of a lage portion of fresh soil ; or 

 by the application of animal manure, such as good stable dung or night soil. 



CHAPTER III. 



COUNTRY MANSIONS. 



414. Country mansions differ from country villas, even of the largest size, 

 in having a park and a farm attached, and in their size, as the extent of such 

 a residence can scarcely be less than from fifty to a hundred acres. There 

 are also many adjuncts, without which a country mansion cannot be considered 

 complete, which would be quite out of place in a country residence of smaller 

 size. We shall here say a few words on some of these points, and on some 

 others which are of more consequence in a large place than in a small 

 one, beginning with the latter; after which we shall give two or three 

 designs tor residences of this kind. 



SECTION I. 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON COUNTRY MANSIONS. 



415. Among the points which are of more consequence in a large country 

 residence than in a small one may be mentioned, the situation of the domestic 

 and stable offices ; the farm and farm buildings ; the fish-ponds ; the ice- 

 house; the scenery of the park ; the entrance-lodge, &c. 



416. A bath-room, for the use of the gentlemen of the family, may be on 

 the ground-floor, either attached to the house or not, as may be most con- 

 venient. The advantage of having the bath-room on the ground-floor is, that 

 hot water may be more conveniently supplied to the bath from the cistern at 

 the back of the kitchen fire-place, or heated by the same fire as a hot-house or 

 green-house, as may be most suitable. Fig. 213. shows a bath-room placed 

 behind a conservatory, the bath being heated by the same fire, but not from 

 the same boiler. In this plan, a is the dining-room ; b the drawing-room, from 



