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obtained for the latter, and the persons using the footpath 

 are not observed from the house. The ground being well 

 sloped away from the path on the outer side, it is open and 

 cheerful, and being well drained and formed, is really a boon 

 to the pubUc as compared with an ordinary field path. 



On the west side of the carriage drive, between it and the 

 farm road, there is a cluster of old elm trees, and there are 

 some old sycamores and elms to the east of the drive, near 

 the figures 29. All the plantations and groups had to be 

 newly made. In one of the plantations near the sunk wall, 

 northeastward from the house, we may enter a bridle road 

 between the home pasture and the footpath. 



At 23 the existence of an old chalkpit is made to conduce 

 to the variety in the place by carrying a walk to it from the 

 pleasure grounds and extending this walk around and across 

 the excavation. In the latter case the Hues of walk will be 

 more broken and irregular than it was possible to show on 

 the plan, and the whole is made the medium of displaying 

 rugged masses of natural vegetation, of which the wild clem- 

 atis (common here) will be a conspicuous feature. 



A great deal of earthwork has been executed, both in the 

 pleasure grounds and the home pasture, by reducing in some 

 parts and raising in others to assimilate the general form of 

 the land to that which is beyond and produce an easy but 

 positive convexity of shape without any undulations or dips. 

 From the conformation of the surrounding country this 

 arrangement became a matter of artistic necessity, without 

 which the whole would have appeared trifling and artificial. 



4. The Flower Garden. — The flower garden should be 

 situated on the warmest and most private side of the house, 

 and fronting the drawing-room windows. Or the flowers 

 may be placed in a sheltered and sunny corner of the pleas- 

 ure grounds, where a wall at the back will keep them warm 



