Landscape Gardening 



of the garden should be as nearly as possible south-east. 

 This will allow of the entrance being on the north-west side, 

 the breakfast-room or library having a south-east aspect, the 

 drawing-room with a south-east and a south-west window, 

 and the dining-room looking north-east or north-west, which 

 is perhaps the best arrangement. Tf the kitchen and offices 

 be on the ground floor, they can be kept on the north-east 

 side of the house where the yard will also be situated and 

 from which last there should be a communication with the 

 kitchen garden. 



A gentle eminence with the ground sloping a little away 

 from it in all directions, especially towards the south, will be 

 the best site for a house. An approach by a rising road and 

 command of the outlying scenery will thus be attained, 

 while the house will be dry and appear to be so. Its dignity 

 and importance will also thus be enhanced. It should be put 

 rather nearer the north-east than the south-west side of a 

 plot that there may be some slight breadth of pleasure garden 

 in front of the side drawing-room window, and that the offices 

 and yard may not be too much obtruded. The center of 

 the house should be about one-third the distance from the 

 entrance to the opposite boundary of the pleasure grounds 

 that two-thirds of the ground may be devoted to the private 

 garden. 



I have here introduced the ground-plan of an imaginary 

 house (fig. 3) by way of illustrating generally what would be 

 a desirable arrangement of the rooms, windows, offices, etc., 

 with reference to both aspect and convenience. Not that I 

 would pretend to such a knowledge of architectural detail as 

 would induce me to design a house that should actually be 

 erected. But, having given the subject a good deal of con- 

 sideration, and having frequently experienced the difficulty of 

 adapting grounds to what would appear to be great defects 



