612 Design for Five Suburban Dwellings. 



hardy herbaceous plants as will thrive in so shady a situation. The walk now 

 ends in that which conducts from the back door to a gate in the front fence, 

 through which it passes to the front garden. The junction of the two walks 

 is not visible from the dining-room, and the last-mentioned walk is made to 

 curve boldly round the house, to give an idea of extent in that direction. 



The flower-borders introduced on the lawn must be kept very neatly, and 

 always well stocked, and the outline of each preserved with great care. 



The area may either have a perpendicular wall against the garden, or a 

 sloping one of large rough flint, in the interstices of which specimens of the 

 cistus and other small rock plants may be introduced with good effect, as they 

 will be seen from the dining-room windows. 



The yard contains a fuel-house, shed, coach-house, and three-stalled stable, 

 with lott and man's sleeping-room over it. The coach entrance to the yard is 

 Irom a back road that runs parallel to the entrance road. 



The garden b is laid out with more formality than is the preceding design. 

 One l)road gravel walk runs in a straight line from the back door of the house, 

 to the stable yard, and communicates with it by an ornamental arched gate- 

 waj', the effect of which, as the terminating object of a straight pathway, is 

 good, as may be seen in the Horticultural Gardens at Chiswick and elsewhere. 

 On each side of this walk is turfi bounded by shrubbery, and having flower 

 borders cut out upon it. The first objects from the house are, a long bed on 

 one side, and a parterre on the other adjoining the kitchen area. The second 

 feature presented is a mass of flowers and shrubs on each side, made to look 

 as if they were arranged on stands, by being planted in earth thrown up in a 

 regular form, at the highest angle it will retain against the wall; and, if these 

 are neatly kept, an effect of high cultivation will be produced, that will be 

 very pleasing so near to the dwelling-house, and in so small a garden. The 

 walls above and on each side must be covered with flowering creepers, placing 

 those that are evergreen nearest to the house. Beyond these flower-banks 

 are projecting thickets of evergreen shrubs, that partially shut off the lower 

 part of the garden, for the purpose of increasing its apparent magnitude. At 

 a little distance from these is a walk that leaves the main one at a right angle, 

 and conducts to a seat, and thence running between the boundary wall and a 

 close shrubbery, reenters it again at the bottom of the garden. Wherever 

 the walls have a shrubbery close against them, they are to be covered with 

 Irish ivy. 



The garden c is wot larger than the rest, though belonging to the centre 

 house, which is the principal of the range. It is laid out in a imiform manner. 

 The area is skirted by a straight walk, from which springs a semicircular one. 

 The space enclosed between them is taken up with parterre work of a radiating 

 pattern, on turf. From the circumference of this, opposite to the centre, is a 

 straight walk terminating in a circle of gravel, having for its centre a fountain, 

 if such is attainable ; if not, a statue, a sun-dial, a stone flower-stand, or some 

 other interesting artificial object. The lawn on each side of this walk is cut 

 off from the rest of the garden by an evergreen thicket, which serves to 

 conceal the direction of the walks that leave the gravelled circle, and likewise 

 the extent of the ground beyond. At the point of these thickets, next the 

 walk, are to be placed handsome vases, containing aloes or yuccas; and, in 

 the nook that is formed between the thicket and the wall, other vases of a 

 larger description, on rich architectural flower-stands. These various objects, 

 so arrangetl, will be found to group well together ; and the effect of some 

 being immediately backed with foliage, and the others open to the scenery 

 beyond, will be highly picturesque ; and the whole will have a character of 

 richness and elegance, as seen from the windows of the drawingroom, that 

 cannot fail to please. This character will be kept up and increased by the 

 flower banks, climbing roses, and choice creepers, against each of the division 

 walls; and by tlie walls themselves having small tazzas containing flowering 

 plants placed on them at equal distances, around which, so as partially to 

 conceal them, the roses might be allowed to grow. The farther part of the 



