THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



FEBRUARY, 1840. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. ' 



Art. I. Descriptive Notices of select Suburban Residences, iuitk 

 Remarks on each; intended to illustrate the Principles and Practice 

 of Landscape-Gardening. By the Conductor. 



No. 14. FoRTis Green, Muswell Hill, the Villa of 

 W. A. Nesfield, Esq. 



" A happy rural seat, of various view." — Milton. 



Mr. Nesfield has long been well known as a landscape- 

 painter of eminence, and as connected with the Society of 

 Painters in Water- Colours. He has lately directed his attention 

 to landscape-gardening, and that with so much success, that 

 his opinion is now sought for by gentlemen of taste in every 

 part of the country. His own villa at Finchley is in a singu- 

 larly rural peaceful situation, rarely to be met with so near 

 London : it is laid out with appropriate taste, and the grass 

 field, forming part of it, is managed in such a manner as actually 

 to be a source of profit. We were so much gratified with the 

 appearance of this villa, and with Mr. Nesfield's sheep-farming, 

 that we prevailed upon him to favour us with a plan and some 

 sketches of the former, and with an account of his mode of 

 managing the latter, which he has very kindly done, and we now 

 lay these before our readers. [This article was prepared, and 

 set up in type, for our Suhurhan Gardener^ in the summer of 

 1838, but the engravings were not ready in time to admit of its 

 publication in that work.] 



Fig. 13. in p. ^Q. is a view of the entrance-front of this villa, the 

 ground occupied by which consists of two portions, represented in 

 Jigs. 8. and 9. The narrow portion, next the public road, shown 

 in fig. 8., contains the approach, the house, the kitchen-garden, 

 and the flower-garden ; and the wider portion {^fig. 9.) shows the 

 paddock, or sheep pasture. The whole lies on a gentle de- 

 clivity, facing the south ; the farther extremity of the field being 

 probably 50 ft. below the level of the road, at the entrance-gate 

 at 1, in^. 8. 



In^. 8., the ground plan of the narrow part of Mr, Nesfield's 

 grounds, are the following details, furnished by Mr. Nesfield:— 



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