COMPONENT PARTS OF A GARDEN 167 



The approach from the pleasure garden is 

 through A, and from the back part of the house 

 and the stable through B. The gate C leads 

 directly to small fruit plantations and orchard. 



On the northern side are the glass houses, built 

 as lean-tos against the wall. They comprise three 

 vineries and one peach house, and between them 

 is a house more ornamental in structure and used 

 as a conservatory. A low house for carnations 

 is separate from the main range, on the east of 

 the doorway D. The two exits, D and E, from 

 this side give access to an important part of the 

 economy of garden work viz., the frame yard 

 and forcing pits. These are tidily separated into 

 compartments by privet hedges, and permanent 

 crops such as rhubarb, seakale and asparagus 

 beds also find a place here. A thick belt of ever- 

 greens, conifers and rhododendrons stand on the 

 north-east boundary, and break the force of the 

 winds that come across open meadows beyond. 



Various offices are attached to the north side 

 of the walled in portion : fruit and flower rooms, 

 bothies, store, stoke hole and small potting shed 

 and oifice, a large range of sheds is in the 

 standing ground, for housing pots and various 

 implements. 



The main paths across the kitchen garden are 

 8 ft. wide, and the subsidiary ones round are 4 ft. 

 6 in. The main paths are bordered by espalier or 

 cordon fruit trees, with a border 10 ft. wide between 



