Wooden Hustic-'worJc as Garden Ornaments. 485 



Art. V. A Series of Designs Jbr laying out Kitchen-Gardens. By 

 Mr. T. Rutger. Design 5., Containing nearly Three Acres within 

 the Walls, and an Acre and a Quarter in the Slips. 



For cases where a south entrance is not attainable, the fore- 

 going plan (Jig. 79.) gives the entrances at the east and west 

 sides; either of which, or both, may be adopted. The garden 

 has two cross walls, with a walk wide enough for a carriage 

 drive through the middle, with room allowed, at the southern 

 extremity, for the carriage to turn. This garden comprises 

 something more than two acres and three quarters within the 

 walls, including the forcing department; and the slips give about 

 an acre and a quarter more. In the frame ground, dwarf walls 

 are introduced, for the purpose of training young fruit trees for 

 occasional removal to the inner walls when wanted. These walls 

 will be found useful to gardeners who like to commence with 

 the training of their own trees, or they may be used for toma- 

 toes, &c. 



Shortgrove, Essex, 1834-. 



Art. VI. On Wooden Rustic-work as Garden Ornaments. 

 By Selim. 



Though I agree in the opinion you express in the Encyclo* 

 pcedia of Architecture (p. 986.), respecting wooden rustic-work 

 as a garden ornament, I think -there are situations in which it 

 has a good effect ; and those who can afford nothing more ex- 

 pensive, may frequently give interest to a small garden by a few 

 embellishments of this description. But, of course, I suppose 

 them to be executed in good taste, and to be suited only to the 

 simple gardens of cottages and small villas. They have cer- 

 tainly a very bad effect when introduced near a mansion which 

 has any pretensions to magnificence ; and I remember an in- 

 stance of this kind at Blenheim. When I saw that princely 

 residence, some years ago, a thatched rustic temple stood in a 

 flower-garden, which had been recently formed, close to the 

 house* The temple was a conspicuous object from the windows 

 of some of the principal apartments ; and, as it could not har- 

 monise with any of the grand objects around it, it looked ridi- 

 culous, and produced a very disagreeable effect. In the grounds 

 of a palace like Blenheim, rustic-work can only be in good taste 

 when placed in a distant part of the park : but, around a cot- 

 tage or villa, it forms a good substitute for the more costly orna- 

 ments, such as statues, urns, and terraces, which are the proper 

 embellishments of an architectural mansion. One advantage of 

 wooden rustic-work is, that it can be adapted to a great variety 

 of purposes. Thus, very beautiful and even architectural tem- 



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