THE CHOICE OF A SITE AND ITS TREATMENT. 



placing the house on the site, for while the landscape architect will wish to compose the 

 whole subject with the dominating feature, this is useless without the aid of the domestic 

 architect in the placing and arrangement of the chief entrance door and the windows to 

 the leading rooms. If the house is to be complementary to its setting, its arrangements 

 must, in a great measure, be ruled by the design of the latter, and its architectural 

 details be conceived in the same spirit. There is room for hearty co-operation also 

 in the disposition of the service buildings, for while the domestic architect designs 

 the culinary offices, the landscape architect places and arranges the kitchen garden, and 

 efficiency demands that they shall be reciprocally planned; and the same principle 

 applies to every other feature. 



Considered from the landscape architect's standpoint, the chief essential of the plan- 

 ning of the house and its dependent buildings is that they shall be grouped so as to 

 provide the most economical and practical arrangement which will cause the smallest 

 amount of unremunerative labour and running to and fro. The logical deduction from 

 this statement is that the whole mansion, stables, lodges, laundry, garage, and outbuildings 

 should be designed as parts of one block, and that this can be done without disfiguring 

 the mansion or destroying its privacy will be seen from illustration No. n, which shows 

 the plan of the house and administrative annex as designed to suit the particular plot 

 of ground we have been discussing. 



In recent years, there has been a tendency to detach the stables and laundry and Centraliza- 

 as many other buildings as possible from the main block, the stables being in one tion in 

 place, the laundry in another, the kitchen garden in another, and the workmen's cottages planning. 

 away from the place altogether, with consequent waste of time as well as lack of 

 composite architectural effect. Doubtless this state of things has, in the past, had its 

 raison d'etre in hygienic considerations, but the high position to which sanitary science 

 has now attained removes all objections not of an entirely sentimental nature. 



Having thus disposed the principal buildings on the ground in collaboration with The 

 the domestic architect, we may now proceed to arrange the surroundings; but before question of 

 doing so it is necessary that we should study the question of upkeep. Owners of new upkeep. 

 places very properly give careful consideration to the question of the cost of the form- 

 ation of their gardens, but how few give any thought at the time to the still more 

 important question of annual maintenance. We will suppose, therefore, that the owner 

 of the plot we have under consideration desires to limit the amount devoted to the 

 annual upkeep of the grounds to 350 : o : o. In such a case we must so arrange 

 our plan as to limit the expenditure as follows : 



Head Gardener 30/- per week with cottage Per annum 



Second gardener 22/- do. do. do. 



Two garden labourers i8/- do. do. 



Strong youth io/- 



Seedsman's account for seeds, bulbs and sundries 



Nurseryman's account for fruit-trees, shrubs for making up, etc. 



Coke and coal for heating, peat, loam, silver sand, etc. 



Sundry expenses 



Balance 



350 oo* 



* Nothing is allowed in this statement for interest on money sunk in lodges and cottages inhabited by 

 gardeners, as the exact proportion of this to be credited would be difficult to apportion and would vary in 

 each case. 



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