54- Select Suburbati Residences. 



Fig. 12. is a ground plan of Mr. Nesfield's house and flower- 

 garden on a larger scale. 



a, Drawingroom. aa. Green-house. b. Dining-room, 



c. Passage. d, Staircase. e. Porch. /, Closet. 



g, Way to cellar, from kitchen and glass closet. k. Kitchen. 



i. Scullery. k. Stairs to servants' rooms. /, Laundry. 



m, Store-room. 71, Tool-house, at the end of which is the stoke-hole to 



the green-house. o. Passage to the yard. p. Larder. 



g. Coal-hole. r, "Wash-house. s, Pump. t, Yard. 



u, Stable. tiu, Dung-pit. v, Walk from the entrance-front to the 



flower-garden. 



w. Walk connecting the kitchen-garden with the flower-garden. 



X, Gate in the wire fence which separates the flower-garden from the field. 



^, Entrance to the field, from a small paddock communicating with the stable- 

 yard, z, Shrubbery, and boundary fence. 



I, Steps from the drawingroom. 2, Beds for low flowers, on gravel, 

 and edged with box. 3, Aloe-tub. 



4, A mound, raised 18 in., having its interior slope as steep as it will stand 

 (that is, with a base of 2 ft.). Upon the top is a hedge of dwarf China 

 roses, jasmines, and sweetbriars, kept 18 in. high, and terminating in each 

 end in a small circle, out of the centre of which rises a standard rose tree. 

 The exterior slope, as indicated by the shading, is long, and gradually dimi- 

 nishes, like a glacis, till it imperceptibly unites with the common level. 



5, Beds for groups of dahlias on grass, the highest plants being in the middle 

 of the beds. 



6, Dug border, in front of a plantation of evergreens and low deciduous flow- 

 ering trees, for high and low perennials, and annual flowers. 



7, Dug borders for perennials, annuals, &c., and plants out of the green-house. 



8, Dug borders for low flowers, all upon grass. The two conical trees shown 

 at the steps, are arbor vitaes. 



9, Dug borders, on grass, for high flowers, &c. Next to the palings are 

 various deciduous trees and evergreen shrubs; and the palings are covered 

 with common laurels, trained like fruit trees. This paling is of common 

 Baltic deal, Kyanised, but not painted, and it appears to stand very well. 



10, Mulberry tree. 



II, Yew hedge, to separate the flower-garden from the entrance-front. 



12, Sloping bank of tui'f, having a rise of 3 ft. on a base of 7 ft. This slope 

 was formed in consequence of the house standing on an inclined plane. 

 The house now has the effect of standing on a horizontal platform. 



13, Steps leading from the lower to the upper flower-garden. 



14, Wall to the offices', which containing no windows is covered with peach, 

 nectarine, and apricot trees. Flowering creepers might be substituted ; 

 or it might be treated as a conservative wall, and covered with myrtles, 

 camelUas, oleanders, fuchsias, &c. 



Management of the Grass Field. The total quantity of land 

 at Fortis Green is 4:^ acres, of which 1;^ acre is occupied by the 

 house, pleasure-ground, kitchen-garden, shrubberies, &c., and 

 3 acres are exclusively devoted to sheep. 



There are two modes of stocking a farm with sheep upon a 

 small scale. 



First Method. Buy in September, or in the beginning of 

 October, three ewes in lamb, per acre, at 25s. each, which will, 

 on an average, produce four lambs an acre, in February (though 

 there are frequently five or six). These lambs will be fat in 



