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the south, and of a small irregular lake on lower ground 

 to the north. The flower garden is at 5 on the south side 

 of the house, and is enclosed by an ornamental wall about 

 eight feet high with buttresses. It is divided into two parts, 

 separated by a terrace bank and a low wall with vases upon 

 it; the part 5 being intended for purely summer flowers, in 

 beds of one color, while the upper half (6), which is four 

 feet higher, is designed for mixed herbaceous plants. The 

 whole is diversified with specimen plants and vases, and the 

 center walk is terminated by a summer house through which 

 the walk passes between high banks clothed with rhododen- 

 drons and beneath the back road by a small tunnel (8) till 

 it emerges through a door in the wall on to the terrace at (9). 

 From the southern arm of the terrace an ascent is made 

 by steps and an incHned walk, to a raised mound (10), on the 

 summit of which, twelve or fourteen feet above the general 

 level, is a canopied seat, from which there is a view of the 

 winter garden and the principal part of the pleasure grounds. 

 A branch walk from this elevated point descends rapidly 

 into a narrow natural valley, commencing at 24, through 

 which the walk winds, the banks being covered with rocks 

 and roots as receptacles for ferns and similar plants. At 1 2 

 is a basin of water, in which is erected a very costly fountain, 

 composed chiefly of bronze figures. The walk to the east 

 and west of this basin has on either side of it a row of small 

 groups of statuary on pedestals alternating with specimen 

 evergreens; and the octagonal figure between 12 and 10 is 

 furnished and surrounded by beds and specimens of the 

 greatest possible variety of dwarf evergreens arranged as a 

 winter garden, the wall at the back of the eastern terrace 

 being also covered with evergreen climbers. At 13 and in a 

 corresponding position at the center of the winter garden it 

 is proposed to put large groups of bronze figures, on pedes- 



