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the Oriental plane, apparently coeval with the tulip tree and the 

 cedars. By the present occupier the place has been very greatly 

 improved ; and it has, for many years past, been kept in the 

 very highest order. The principal artificial features within the 

 grounds are : the mount avenue (a in^o-. 2.), which terminates in 

 a rustic summer-house of a handsome design and very neatly 

 executed, and from which extensive prospects to the west and 

 south are obtained; the flower-garden (b), of which Jig. 1. is a 

 general view; the view from the house, looking towards the 

 mount, which is shown in Jig. 4. ; and the view of the house, as 

 connected with the cedars, and as seen from the road to the . 

 stables, which* is shown in Jig. 5. 



The following are the details of the plan (Jig. 2.) : — 



House. 



a, Drawingroom. b, Entrance-hall. c, Ante-room. d, Library. 



e, Dining-room. /, Butler's pantry. g, Staircase. h, Passage. 



House and Stable Offices, fyc. 

 i, Dairy, k, Coal-house for the laundry. I, Potato-house, m, Laundry. 

 n, Laundress's bed-room. o, Bin for wood. p p, Privies. 



q, Dust-bin. r, Pump. s, Knife-house. t, Footman's room. 

 u, Machine-room for the organ. v, Drying-ground. w, Stable-yard. 



x, Stable. y, Hay-loft. z, Harness-room. 



I, Groom's room. 2, 3, Carriage-houses. 



4, Coal-house, &c, for the coachman. 5, Tool-house. 6, Privy. 



7, Border for fruit trees. 8, Cistern. 9, Dung-pit. 10, Potting-shed. 



Frame-Ground. 



II, Green-house. 12, Vinery. 13, Furnace. 14, 15, Peach-houses. 

 16, Pinery. 17, Furnace. 18, Coal-bin. 19, Succession pine-pit. 

 20, Place for green-house plants in summer. 21, Flower-beds. 



22, 23, Cisterns. 



Pleasure- Gro unds. 



24, Main entrance. 25, Servants' entrance, both for the house and gardens. 

 26, Three circular masses ; one of hardy heaths, another of hardy azaleas, 



and the third of China roses, varied by substituting other low flowering shrubs 



every three or four years. 

 27 27, Large cedars of Lebanon, one of which is 65 ft. high. (See Arb. Brit., 



vol. iv. p. 2426.) 



28, Large tulip tree. This tree, in 1834, had been planted 80 years. It was 

 then 70 ft. high, with a head 49 ft. in diameter, and the diameter of the trunk 

 3 ft. 10 in. There is only one tulip tree higher than this in the neighbourhood 

 of London, which is atSyon, and is 76 ft. high. (See Arb. Brit., vol. i. p. 289.) 



29, Oriental plane ; probably the finest specimen in the neighbourhood of 

 London. In 1834, when measured for the Arb. Brit., it was 80 years old, 

 77 ft. high, the diameter of the head 90 ft., and of the trunk 4 ft. 4 in. 

 (See Arb. Brit., vol. iv. p. 2042.) 



30, Place for garden rubbish. 31, Mass of rhododendrons. 



32, Groups of peat-earth low shrubs, fuchsias, pelargoniums, &c. 



33, Rosarium. 34, China roses. 



35, Circular beds of hydrangea, heliotrope, China roses, &c. 



36, Private door to the back lane, opposite to which, on the other side of the 

 lane, is another door, opening into a private walk to the farmyard, grass 

 field, and kitchen-garden. 



