26 Landscape Gardening ' 



The position of the stable-yard, on the north side of the 

 house, is a favorable one, as there is comparatively Httle 

 wind from that quarter to convey any kind of nuisance, and 

 the stables are conveniently near, without being uncomfort- 

 ably or obtrusively so. It will be noticed, too, that the stable 

 buildings are opposite the center of the kitchen garden, so 

 that the clock-tower, designed to surmount the former, would 

 be an object from the middle walk; and both the stables 

 and the farm buildings face the south-east, which would ren- 

 der them dry, pleasant, and healthy. The situation of the 

 manure pits is likewise convenient for conveying the manure 

 to the frame-ground, the kitchen garden, or the field; and 

 the manure made in the cow house and pig sties could, by 

 the doors into the garden-yard and into the back road, be 

 removed with similar ease. 



In the walls, too, there would be considerable economy of 

 space and material, as most of them are made to answer a 

 double purpose. The wall on the south-east and north-east 

 sides of the kitchen garden is capable of being used for fruit 

 trees on both sides, and that along the south-western margin, 

 as just mentioned, serves for ornamental climbers on the side 

 towards the pleasure grounds. 



By placing the gardener's cottage near the north corner of 

 the land the whole property is protected on that side and the 

 gardener is brought into the midst of his more important 

 duties. A path as shown from the high road to the cottage 

 would enable any one to come to it independently without 

 passing into the grounds. 



A little architectural skill in the treatment of the various 

 elevations, and the adoption of such details and decorations 

 as would give harmony and consistency to the whole might, 

 I conceive, produce an agreeable effect of grouping from so 

 varied an outline, and by a judicious adaptation of the roofs 



