406 Select Villa Residences. 



12. Group of trees of the following species: — the Osage 



orange, (Madura aurantiaca,) American linden, ( Tiha 

 americana) Weeping cherry, (Cerasus vulgaris var.) and 

 Virgilia lutea. 



13. Group composed of (Sophora japonica, A^cev striatum, 



and A. JYegundo. 



14. Fine weeping ash, (Fraxinus excelsior var.) 



15. Salisburia odiantifolia; this stands on the opposite side 



of the lawn, and is yet a small specimen. 

 \Q. Green-house, about forty feet long and fifteen wide, with 

 an office for the gardener in the rear. 



17. Gardener's house, separated from the green-house by a 



passage-way. 



18. Flower garden, in front of the green-house. It is laid 



out in circular beds, edged with box, with gravel walks. 

 Under the arbor vita? hedge, which is here planted against 

 the boundary line, the green-house plants are principally 

 placed during summer. 



19. Hedge or screen of arbor vitae, shutting out the back 



shed, compost ground, &c. The arbor vitae is well 

 adapted for this purpose, growing rapidly, and forming a 

 perfect screen in three or four years. 



20. Stable, house for packing trees, &,c. 



21. 21, 21. Nurse)'}' grounds. 



22. Walk continued from the lawn through a part of the nur- 



sery, and connecting with the one which leads from the 

 rear of the house. 



Having thus far fully explained the ground plan, we shall take 

 our readers with us in a walk through the grounds, remarking 

 upon the various objects as they appeared to us in August 

 last. 



Commencing at the entrance gate, which we shall only stop 

 to find fault with for the want of keeping in its Grecian style, 

 with the Gothic architecture of the house, we pass by the 

 flower garden, green-house, and a portion of the pleasure- 

 ground, and arrive at the house, a finely proportioned build- 

 ing, in the Tudor style, of which the annexed engraving, {fig' 

 12, p. 407) gives a correct representation.* 



* We are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Downiiijr for this fine 

 engraving, whicli was executed for his Treatise on Landscape Gar- 

 dening, and appeared in that work. 



