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Queries and Answers to Queries. 



future station in life, will neglect to acquire a competent knowledge 

 of languages which are tiic keys to so many modern ones, and which 

 will render terms of science vehicles of information instead of empty 

 sounds. 



Plan for laying out Grounds. — Sir, you would much oblige a constant 

 reader of your useful Gardener's Magazine, if, through its medium, you 



References to the Plan {figs. 49, 50.) and the Profile (figs. 51, 52.). 



+1, Situation of existing trees. 

 o. Peach-house, vinery, and a hot-house be- 

 tween them. 



b. Entrance-gate. 



c. Mansion-house, in the Grecian style. 



d. American garden, with pond. 



e. Green-house. 

 /, Veranda. 



g, Terrace-walk.'with two flights of Steps to 

 lawn, in which is a fountain. 



h, A ravine; to which a walk should lead 

 from the grounds, as a cascade may be there 

 formed. 



i, American gi-ound, begun but not finished. 



k, From this point a peninsula, of a circular 

 form and rising into a round-topped hill, 

 stretches nearly half across the lake, consist- 

 ing of about nine acres : it is partly fringed 

 with wood, but bare opposite the house, and 

 with a barren gravelly shore. 



