THE SCOTS GARDENER 



room, withdra wing-room, bed-chamber, and wait- 

 ing-room), and ten steps to the lower story, which 

 is half under ground and vaulted, this is the kitchen, 

 cellars, larders, &c. That above the dining-room 

 story may be bed-chambers, library, and with- 

 drawing-room ; and above these you may have gar- 

 rets for wardrops. The roof may be divided into 

 three, so as the middle part may be flat and covered 

 with lead, and the two sides more steep and slated. 

 There is also a stayr coming down from the hall to 

 the parterre of grass and gravel, on whose corners 

 are two pavilions, opening without the line of the 

 house, and set off in place of jammes ; one of which 

 may be a store-house, the other a dove-house : the 

 stables, baking and brewing-house are on the op- 

 posite side most conveniently situated. 



Situate your house in a healthy soyl, near to a 

 fresh spring, defended from the impetuous west 

 winds, northern colds, and eastern blasts: andmind 

 regularity, viz., make all the buildings and plant- 

 ings ly so about the house, as that the house may 

 be the centre ; all the walks, trees, and hedges run- 

 ning to the house. Therefore, whatever you have 

 on the one hand, make as much, of the same forme 

 and in the same place, on the other. But if you 



