Fortis Gree7u 



51. 





1, Entrance by a close 

 gate, 6 ft. 6 in. high. 



2, Avenue of syca- 

 mores, bounded on 

 each side by a laurel 

 hedge cut nearly per- 

 pendicular, like a 

 clipped hedge, and 

 allowed to be high 

 enough to screen the 

 kitchen-garden, &c. 

 There are other laurel 

 hedges in the kitchen- 

 garden marked /. 



3, Boundary, consisting 

 of a quick fence and 

 ditch. 



4, Entrance front of 

 the house. 



5, Lawn, which de- 

 scends very rapidly 

 to the flat surface 

 upon which is placed 

 the house. In con- 

 sequence of the I ® 04 'I i 



frontage being so long : s^ | 



and narrow, it was ] " t 



impossible to place T I 



the house upon the 1 ^ 



level (i. e. where the | ^ ^ 



lawn is separated r 



from the kitchen-gar- I 



den), because the i 



south view, which is I 



extremely desirable, I 



would have been con- '- 



tracted to nearly half 



the width which is r 4S> 



now seen ; and, as j 



the kitchen-garden T # ^ 



and other requisites | #i 



would have destroyed | 



the character of the T 



view from the south, i 



which now in itself |§3[:.sE^ix3Es37^sK:svKS53Si5s:?S2E35::t:E:!C3gs^ ' 



assumes the appear- 

 ance of a park-like field, there was no alternative, but that of adopting the 

 different sites indicated on the plan, for the lower flower-garden, kitchen- 

 garden, &c. ; particularly as there is no view northwards. The objection, 

 therefore, of descending to the carriage-sweep in front of the house, is 

 accounted for. 



6, Dug ground, containing a variety of ornamental trees and shrubs, the; 

 margins are devoted to low flowering shrubs, &c. 



7, Flower-garden, upon two levels. 



8, Walk connecting the kitchen-garden with the flower-garden, along a row 

 . of lime trees. 



9, Kitchen-garden, having a holly hedge from the gardener's entrance (a) tO/ 

 the yew hedge near the corner of the house (6) ; the remaining hedges are 

 all common laurel. 



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