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fence, we come to a row of beds, for plunging Ericas, Azaleas, &c. 

 These beds may be five or six feet wide, and of any convenient 

 length, dug out about two feet deep; having made a layer of 

 brush, branches of trees, or other like material, fill up to about 

 six inches above ground with peat, or such stuff as may be most 

 advisable for the different genera. To give it a neater appear- 

 ance, a frame may be mide around the bed, which will give 

 facilities for shade and turning off heavy rains by means of shut- 

 ters. Ej forcing or propogating house, 15x40, span roofed; 

 useful also for other purposes. F, range of forcing beds ; y, a 

 crossing over the ditch, leading to the manure depository, q. C, 

 carriage house (provided with apartments for coachmen) and 

 stable, with a poultry house, D, attached on the west side, and a 

 covered gateway leading to the manure depository, separated by 

 a wire fence from the poultry yard, p. M, a water reservoir in 

 the center of the garden, n, n ; o, group of dwarf pear trees. /, a 

 summer house and observatory on an artificial hill from 20 to 30 

 feet high ; an ice house underneath, with the entrance at H. G, 

 a roliere ; r, a rustic seat nearly surrounded by the water of the 

 fish pond, 5", supplied by a small brook entering at /, /, on the 

 south side, (running through a grove of Ulmus campestris, or 

 Fagus sylvatica,) and running out through the ditch, which sepa- 

 rates the manure depository from the hot-bed, kc; or the water 

 may be conducted through wooden or iron pipes, underground to 

 some spot in the grove, and come out between some rocks arranged 

 for ;he purpose. 



To lay out and embellish grounds systematically, it is necessary 

 to be acquainted with the locality, extent, shape, natural pro- 

 ducts, and distant sights, if there be any. After having made a 

 general map of the ground, showing also the position of the house, 

 roads, &c., I design sketches for sections proportionate to the 

 extent of ground, which mu^t be according to general arrange 

 ment, S'hown on a bird's eye view representation of the whole; 

 and s» I am enabled to select trees and shrubs with regard to 

 height and tint, which will seldom fail to produce the wished-for 

 effect. 



