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moved from the one to the other. And, when practicable, 

 a kitchen garden may, on one side at least, abut upon a road 

 or lane, that soil, manure, etc., may be carted to it at any 

 time. 



Places for preserving tools and depositing rubbish, and 

 means for obtaining water when required, back paths or 

 roads to the kitchen and offices, space for drying linen, length- 

 ened walks round a paddock for exercise, with an arbor or 

 summer house in it for shelter from showers or storms, and 

 for reading and retirement at other periods, are some of the 

 various conveniences which should be taken into account 

 in laying out a place, especially as many of them cannot 

 be obtained at all unless they are secured in the first 

 instance. 



4. Compactness. — In order still further to attain the 

 full advantage of convenience to economize space and labor, 

 and to make everything appear orderly and well-contrived, 

 compactness of arrangement will be particularly influential. 

 Nothing tends more to exhibit a want of design, or to produce 

 general slovenHness, than a scattered and ill-considered dis- 

 posal of the different parts of a place. Each department that 

 is connected with another — and all should be but parts of a 

 combined whole — ought not merely to adjoin but to fit into 

 its neighboring department, so that no space may be lost, 

 no untidy corners created, and no unnecessary expenditure 

 occasioned in the erection of walls or other divisions. In 

 fact each wall or fence in the interior of a place should, 

 if possible, be made to serve a double purpose, and act as a 

 boundary to two separate compartments, or form a part of 

 two distinct sets of buildings. Thus, the wall on the north 

 side of a kitchen gardei> may be made to constitute one of the 

 fences to a house-yard, a garden-yard, a stable-court, and 

 even a small farm-yard; while the back of such a wall might 



