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view across the road, I proposed the introduction of 

 the gardener's cottage upon the wayside, in such man- 

 ner that its quaint gable should peep from the trees 

 upon the right of the scene, and a well-trimmed hedge 

 of hemlock shut out all sight of the road-way. The 

 diagram already given will show the position of the 

 water, the walks, the gardener's cottage, and the 

 gardener's patch of vegetables this latter being 

 quite out of sight from the high grounds by the man- 

 sion. 



It is quite essential to the effectiveness of this 

 design for the lay-out of the grounds that the public 

 road be kept in neat and trim condition so neat and 

 so trim that the visitor approaching it from the south 

 (the direction of the nearest railway station), shall, 

 when he arrives opposite the gardener's cottage 

 (whose porch must jut upon the highway), involun- 

 tarily reckon it a gate-lodge of some private domain 

 into which he just there enters. For the fuller 

 establishment of this pleasant deceit, the real entrance 

 gates should be of the simplest and most unpretend- 

 ing character as if they were but portions of some 

 interior enclosures. Whatever grass or shrubs may 

 grow within the public road after passing the gar- 

 dener's cottage should be as zealously cared for and 

 as trimly kept as if they were within the enclosing 

 wall. One may be assured that the neighboring 



