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might appropriately be disposed. It does not purport to be 

 a perfect model of design, but is simply brought forward to 

 show how the various parts of a place may be arranged, and 

 dovetailed into one another. For the sake of additional 

 clearness, all minor details are omitted. 



The plot of land represented is supposed to contain about 

 eight acres, having a public road along the north-western 

 margin, the parts about the house being tolerably flat, the 

 field sloping to the south-east, and an open country lying 

 towards the south and east, with similar places to the south- 

 west and the north-east. 



It will readily be perceived, from this sketch, that a good 

 deal of accommodation is compressed into a small compass, 

 and that, while each of the departments is kept essentially 

 separate, they are all, where necessary, very thoroughly and 

 directly connected. The principal approach to the house has 

 a branch to the stables, and one back entrance is made to 

 give access to the house-yard, the frame-ground, the stable- 

 yard, and, through the latter, to the farm-yard, the yard 

 attached to the gardener's cottage, and the field. The dry- 

 ing-ground is connected only with the house-yard, and has on 

 one side of it a hedge on which linen may be hung to bleach. 

 The frame-ground communicates with the house-yard and 

 the garden-yard, and thus affords a direct way from the 

 kitchen garden to the back entrance door. There is also 

 space enough for pits and frames on the north side of the 

 frame-ground, which will be beyond the shade of walls or 

 buildings, and the separating Hne between this ground and 

 the garden-yard is merely a hedge. A cart entrance into the 

 frame-ground completes the facihties of communication, by 

 allowing soils or manure to be introduced or rubbish carted 

 away. The pit for rubbish in the corner of this ground 

 would enable the gardener always to keep it clean and tidy. 



