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Plan for a Villa Residence. 



nished. I shall say nothing about a selection of fruit trees, as 

 you have contributors far more competent in that department 

 than I pretend to be. I am, Sir, &c. 



Knoxiostro}), near Leeds, ■ Joshua Major. 



Aupustl^. 1827. 



References to the Plan, {fig. 14.) 



u, Mansion, offices, and kitchen-yard. 



b. Stable-yard and manure-receptacle. 



c. Clothes-yard. 



d. Bath, and swimming-pond adjoining. 



e. Green-house, with a recess for small birds confined by a net, or by 

 wire-work. 



/, Summer green-house and aviaries. 



g. Ice-house. 



h, Moss-house, or grotto, and rockwork. 



i. Flower-garden, formed by a lawn and various-shaped dug beds for 

 flowers. 



k, Rivulet, forming a pleasing portion of the pleasure-ground, and well 

 adapted for aquatic plants. 



/, Masses of shrubs. The forms of dug surface are to be kept as they are 

 till the plants sufficiently extend to cover them, when the ground outline 

 will be broken by the natural growth of the plants, especially by those of 

 the evergreen kind. 



m, Beds for bog plants. 



V, Roses in masses. 



o, Forest planting mingled with undergrowths, and fronted, in the parts 

 most seen, with valuable evergreen and flowering shrubs, interspersed with 

 occasional groups of flowers, especially about the flower-garden : near the 

 house, with early flowering kinds. 



