forming a continuous Range. 611 



The kitchen and offices are in the basement, and the staircase from them 

 is brought up under the principal stairs. The water-closet is entered from the 

 garden porch. 



The externa] sides of the houses are all alike, and are very plain (see 

 fig. 121.). There is on the chamber floor one window in the centre to give 



light to a small bed or dress- 

 ing room ; and there is on 

 each side of it a niche for 

 the reception of statues. 

 The chimneys rise in the 

 centre and form a bold pe- 

 destal that is connected 

 with the angular blocks by 

 Vig-nz End View Fig. 124. Side View of the Chim- gradetti. This pedestalJs 



of the Lhimnny-tops. ney-tovs. ^ i i • i i 



' surmounted by an enriched 



band or crowning, sculptured with honeysuckle and lotus, as shown in 



figs. 123. and 12-t. 



The Gardens for the Five Suburban Dwellings. — The whole plot of ground in 

 this design consists of two acres and a quarter; each of the buildings having 

 one rood and a half, of which one rood is devoted to the pleasure-garden, 

 and the remainder occupied by the stable-yard, site of dwelling-house, and the 

 front garden. 



This plan is not arranged with regard to any particular aspect, as the ter- 

 race must be placed parallel to the general line of road on which it verges. 

 On this account, the gardens are laid out so as to be suitable to any locality, 

 by merely shifting a few of the flower-beds to the most sunny parts, if the 

 places shown for them happen to be too much in shade : this may be done 

 without deranging the general plan. 



The ground is supposed to be level, but a slight rise or a few inequalities 

 will not be injurious. Each garden is laid out differently, so five designs are 

 given in this one plan (fig. 120.) for the arrangement of the grounds attached 

 to suburban residences placed in rows of this description. 



The front garden is common to all the houses, and the entrance is at either 

 end through a wide carriage gateway, by a 13 ft. road that sweeps boldly 

 round to the front of the terrace. No flower borders are here introduced, as 

 it is doubtful whether the inhabitants of the houses could be brought to agree 

 among themselves to bear the expense of proper cultivation. If such an 

 arrangement could be made, they might be introduced with good efl^ect. 



The gardens could not be equally apportioned, owing to the houses being 

 placed at some distance from tlie side walls, which gives the end ones more 

 than the rest ; although, to obviate this difficulty, the separating walls have 

 been made to bend away from the centre as much as could be ventured upon. 



The garden a has a walk 6 ft. 6 in. wide, that conducts from the back 

 doorway, in a serpentine line, to the farther end of the ground, sweeping in 

 its course round a thicket of shrubs, that serves to conceal from the house 

 the farther part of it, and thereby leaves to the imagination the task of deter- 

 mining the extent of the lawn in that direction. At the further end of the 

 ground the walk bends suddenly round, and runs parallel to the yard wall for 

 a short distance ; here it must be sunk about a foot, that it may not be visible 

 from the windows of the dining-room ; and the turf on each side must slope 

 gently down to it in a natural manner. The shrubbery, formed against the 

 yard wall for the purpose of a screen, must be of evergreens, and may or may 

 not be faced out with flowers. From this part there is an entrance to the 

 stable-yard. The main walk now takes a direction homeward between the 

 boundary wall and a close screen of shrubs, which conceals it from the iiousc 

 and from the other parts of the garden. The wall may be covered with Irish 

 ivy, if the aspect is such as will not allow of flowering creepers growing freely 

 against it, but it must be well covered with leafage of some kind ; and the 

 border against it, which is 18 in. wide, must be kept well stocked with such 



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