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to favour you with their opinions and designs upon it. The 

 cuhnary department within the walls of the garden now offered 

 for your acceptance comprises four acres ; and the slips for the 

 fruit-garden and standing crops of vegetables, nearly five acres ; 

 the whole of which is, of course, open to contraction or enlarge- 

 ment, according to circumstances, as may be found convenient. 

 Short "[rove, Essex, 1834. 



Art. III. Design for the Pleasure-Grounds, Floxver-Garden, and 

 Kitchen-Garden of a Mansion. By Mr. William Dargavell. 



In the accompanying plan {Jig.l1.), a is the site of the mansion; 

 h, baluster rail wall; c, approach to the house; d, road to the 

 offices ; e e, offices and dungpit ; f, walk to the kitchen court. The 

 dotted lines from the top of the banks show the inclined plane 

 of descent from the house to the offices, g g. Sloping banks 

 from the terrace walk ; h, the flower-garden. I may here remark 

 that this flower-garden is the same as that at Kirkmichael ; but, 

 as it was originally from my own study, I do not hesitate to give 

 it a place in this plan. Let us suppose this flower-garden to be 

 planted in the mingled style ; which, by due attention to the four 

 prevalent colours of plants, will enable it to be kept up in flower 

 nearly eight months in the year. The figures on the lawn may 

 be planted in masses of one colour, and some of them may con- 

 sist of American plants ; the shrubs figured in the map consist 

 of Portugal laurels and rhododendrons, ii is a rockwork ; and 

 k, a water fountain. The latter is supposed to throw the water 

 up from its centre ; which, with the sun's rays reflecting on its 

 fall, would be a very imposing object. The herbaceous border 

 (/) should contain a selected collection of the finest sorts of 

 flowering plants; and the back row should be planted with 

 dahlias, tree roses, and hollyhocks, alternately, 6 ft. apart. The 

 spaces at m m are to form a shrubbery ; the east side of which is 

 to be bordered with plantation ; and the south exposure is sup- 

 posed not to be very broad, so that views can be seen over it to 

 the supposed park scenery. The kitchen-garden {n) contains an 

 acre and a half imperial measure inside of the walls, and the slip 

 is surrounded with a holly hedge ; o is the vinery ; p, the green- 

 house ; q, the peach-house ; r, furnace pits ; s, gardener's assist- 

 ant's room ; t, fruit-room ; ti, mushroom-house ; v, melon and 

 compost ground, surrounded with a holly hedge ; w, gardener's 

 house ; x, fruit-garden, bordered with plantation on its west side 

 as a shelter ; and j/ is a plantation sheltering the garden from the 

 north. 



Kirkmichael Gardens, Sept. 6. 1834. 



