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a, A portion of the house. 



/;, Walk from the house to the garden scenery. 



c, Summer-house in the English garden. This structure, of which a view is 

 shown in fig. 84. p. 3G9., is placed on a ledge of rock, which, hefore the garden 

 was made, formed one side of a stone quarry; hence, immediately beneath this 

 summer-house there is a very considerable hollow. The rest of the flower- 

 garden has an undulating surface, and the beds are chiefly oval or circular. 

 Among the single low trees are two specimens of the common berberry, 

 which, trained to single stems, form very handsome objects. They are 

 profusely covered with bloom in spring, and, in autumn, so completely 

 clothed with their long red fruit, as to resemble, at a short distance, 

 gigantic specimens of scarlet fuchsia. The rustic structure is curiously 

 and exquisitely executed of different kinds of wood, but chiefly of oak with 

 the bark removed, and of hazel. The floor is paved with oak chumps ; and 

 there is a table inlaid with different kinds of native woods ; and chairs, as 

 well as a bench, chiefly formed of hazel rods. 



d, Continuation of the walk b, on the top of a ledge of rock still higher 

 than the walk which passes through the summer-house (c). The walk d 

 conducts us to the Dutch garden, the buildings in which are an orangery 

 and rustic billiard-room. 



e, An orangery constructed of oak, placed on a basement of rustic masonry, 

 and thatched with reeds, of which Jig. 83. is a view.* It is placed in the 

 north side of the Dutch garden, some of the rhomboidal beds of which 

 may be seen in the engraving. In this orangery there is a space in the 

 centre, which is occupied as a sitting-room, and is furnished with chairs, 

 tables, &c, for eating fruit or taking tea. From this scene there is a door to 

 a Chinese dairy, richly fitted up with Chinese porcelain, many of the speci- 

 mens of great size, and exquisitely painted. Amongst the flowers, we ob- 

 served the blue tree peony, an imaginary variety of the Chinese, but one 

 which never can be found in nature, since it supposes one primitive colour 

 to be changed into another, which never takes place in flowers. Corre- 

 sponding with the dairy is a small room over the stoke-hole, with a fireplace. 

 The dairy is not used as such, but is merely to be considered as a collection 

 of Chinese dairy porcelain. This conservatory, having a thatched roof, and 

 being in a situation sheltered from high winds, requires very little artificial 

 heat, even in the most severe winters. It is used to protect orange trees, 

 large myrtles, and such green-house plants as are in a comparatively dormant 

 state during our winters. In summer, most of the plants are turned out, 

 and others brought from the green-houses and forcing-houses, as they come 

 into flower ; it being found that in this comparatively cool and shaded 

 house the bloom is retained much longer in perfection than it otherwise 

 would be. We remarked here some orange trees, lemon-leaved myrtles, and 

 camellias, which had not been turned out into the open air for several years; 

 and, though the young shoots were etiolated to a considerable extent, yet 

 the intensely dark green of their leaves appeared to show that shade was 

 more favourable to them than sunshine. The thatch, being of reeds, has a 

 handsome appearance. 



/, A billiard-room, with a rustic veranda, also placed in the Dutch garden, and 



* The sketch from which this engraving was made was taken in November, 

 1837, on a very rainy day ; which is the reason, we suppose, that the draughts- 

 man has made a slight inaccuracy in the windows, by making the panes of 

 glass parallelograms, instead of long octagons, which have a much better effect. 

 Figs. 77. and 84. were taken at the same time, by the same artist ; but all 

 the other engravings given to illustrate this article have been made from 

 sketches taken in June, 1838, in fine weather; and their accuracy may be 

 depended on. 



