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The cold grapery is marked F ' ; the hot-house, E^ 

 whose fire, by proper adjustment of one of its flues, 

 gives warmth to the poultry-house, which (marked 

 Z>) is immediately adjoining. A sheltered spot for 

 hot-bed and compost-heap is provided in a position 

 convenient to the manure deposits of the cattle-yard. 

 A broad walk, at least eight feet in width, traverses 

 the garden, and divides near the southern border, to 

 give place to a picturesque coppice of trees and 

 shrubs, whose interior border is planted with hardy 

 and showy herbaceous flowers; these again are 

 hemmed in every summer-time by a narrower and 

 exterior border of the gayest of " bedding " plants. 

 Behind, and to the southward of the garden paling 

 or hedge is a green lane, serving to connect the pas- 

 ture-land by the high-road, with the cultivated lands 

 to the westward, and with the stable court. This 

 connection may be established, while the west lands 

 are under tillage, by means of a hurdle fence, which, 

 shall extend the lane along the west border of the 

 garden. 



The fields marked M and R are, as expressed upon 

 the diagram, either in tillage or in meadow ; and the 

 multitude of fences has been done away with. The 

 southernmost of these two fields is laid bare for 

 thorough tillage of any character, and its neighbor 

 to the north has only a protecting belt of wood. 



