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avenues and rows of trees always produce. To these beauties ought to be 

 added those of the scenery in the immediate vicinity of the mansion, the 

 terraces, the embroidered parterres, the fountains, the statues, and the 

 comfort produced by the near vicinity of the kitchen-garden. Taking both 

 the ancient and the modern styles, however, and examining them impartially, 

 we readily allow that much more variety and interest can be created by the 

 latter style than by the former; and, further, that the modern style is better 

 adapted to modern circumstances, not only on account of the contrast which 

 its lines and forms produce to the lines and forms of a country everywhere 

 cultivated, but on account of its affording more ready means of displaying the 

 numerous foreign trees and shrubs, which at the present day are become 

 comparatively common in the gardens of temperate climates. We shall now 

 describe the plan before us. 



496. Ground plan, 8/-c. — Passing along the turnpike-road (a a in j^^. 314.) 

 indication is given of a gentleman's seat by the triple row of trees within the 

 boundary wall. Arrived at the point b, we there find an open iron gateway, 

 in the centre of a semicircular wall ; and, looking through the gateway along 

 the avenue, we observe at its further end a lofty square house (the mansion) 

 on a raised basement. Between the centre gateway and the lodges on each 

 hand, there are two openings of the same width as the gateway ; and, like it, 

 they are filled in with ironwork, so as also to resemble gates. Through these 

 the eye looks along the avenues c c, which are well calculated to give an idea 

 of extent. After passing through the gates, if we look to the right and left, 

 we see the avenues at right angles to the approach avenue (dd), and, on each 

 side of the avenue leading to the house, the side avenues (e e). The centre 

 avenue has a broad gravel road, but all the other avenues are in grass. 

 Arrived at/, which is the entrance to the court of honour, if we look to the 

 right and left, we have the avenues g g ; though these are chiefly calculated 

 for making an impression on a stranger when he comes out of the court of 

 honour on returning from the mansion. Having passed through the court of 

 honour (h) (in the centre of which is a statue, a sun-dial, or an obelisk), and 

 also directly through the hall of the house, we descend the steps from the 

 platform on the garden front, and arrive at a terrace walk, which extends on 

 each side as far as i i. Directly in front, there is an ancient parterre, with a 

 raised terrace walk round it. On the right is the kitchen-gai-den {k) ; and on 

 the left, the bosquet (l), which is analogous to the modern shrubbery. To the 

 north of the bosquet, there are a conservatory, summer-room, frame-ground, 

 and reserve-garden (m), all of which will hereafter be explained more in 

 detail ; and, to the north of the kitchen-garden, there are the stable oflSces, 

 cow-yard, poultry-yard, laundry, and drying-ground («) ; as will also be here- 

 after more fully explained. There are the back roads (o o) to the offices, 

 gardens, &c., proceeding from the main approach at /; so that no servant 

 need ever have occasion to cross the court of honour, except when in attend- 

 ance on his master, or to open the court gates. From the points i i and pp, 

 and from the walks in the kitchen-garden, and in the bosquet, leading to 

 these points, vistas are obtained along the avenues in the park ; which are 

 shown by the plan so distinctly, that it is unnecessary here to enter into 

 further details. Two of these avenues (q q) are shorter than the others ; but, 

 to direct attention from this circumstance, which would show the boundary 

 fence rather nearer than is desirable, obelisks are placed near their termina- 



