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PRACTICE OF GARDENING. 



Part III. 



tain much land attached. No hot-houses, and but little pleasure-ground is here re- 

 quired. What land there may be, should be applied to use rather than to beauty. 

 Speaking of hunting-boxes, Marshall observes " a suit of paddocks should be seen from 

 the house ; and if a view of distant covers can be caught, the back ground will be com- 

 plete. Tlie stable, the kennel, the leaping-bar, are the appfHindages, in the construc=. 

 tion of which simplicity, substantialness, and conveniency should prevail," 



7282. A cottage oriiee, we think, might be 

 characterised by the garden-front opening into a 

 picturesque orchard ; or a lawn, varied by groups 

 of fruit-trees, instead of a lawn or park planted, 

 with forest trees. It may contain any part of the 

 scenes of the villa, at the will of the owner. If 

 the situation of the house is elevated, so as to 

 give a view from the principal rooms of a great 

 part of the farm, it will be the more desirable. A 

 desirable foundation for this improvement is an 

 old English farmhouse ; by adding to which one 

 or two principal rooms, a very interesting group 

 may be formed at little expense. 



7283. Cottage en verger. An agreeable va- 

 riety of tins species sometimes adopted in France, 

 consists in surrounding an enclosed space of one 

 or two acres, with an irregular strip of walnut, 

 cherry, chestnut, and other tall-growing tr,ees 

 (Jig. 722. a) which produce botli fruit and 

 timber ; and then planting the interior spqce (b) 

 with tlie finer sorts of fruit-trees, especially pears 

 and plums, as standards, on turf. Winding 

 walks are led through the whole, and groups of 

 flowers and kitchen-vegetables introduced. 



7284. The citizeiis villa (Jig. 723.) is a spot 

 of one or more acres laid out in la\\'n and shrub- 

 bery, but without a kitchen-garden. As the 

 space contained is verj- limited, and often under 

 an acre, only the most select trees, shrubs, and flowers should be employed ; and greaf 

 part of the trees and shrubs should be evergreens. Seats and other decorations may 

 be introduced, 

 of the most se^ 

 lect designs, and 

 best workman- 

 ship ; and what 

 is'of the last con- 

 sequence, none 

 but a good gar- 

 dener should be 

 employed in or- 

 der to preserve 

 the whole in the | 

 highest order 4 

 and keeping, at 

 every season of 

 the year. Gar- 

 dens or residen- 

 ces of this sort 

 are almost pecu- 

 liar to the neigh- 

 borhood of Lon- 

 don ; and the 

 occupant pro- 

 cures his culinary produc. ions and fruits cheaper and better than he can grow them, 

 ifrom that first of all gardens, Covent-garden. 



7285. The suburban villa (Jig. 724.) is of limited extent, but contains a small 

 kitchen-garden and stables, with a field planted either in the ancient style (a), or mo^ 

 dern style (b) ; mth a neat lawTi, and groups of flowers (c). Such villas are occupied 

 more by professional men and artists, than by the lesser merchants and rich tradesmen, 

 who (those of the metropolis at least) prefer the citizen's villa. When two or more of 

 sych villas can be formed adjoining each other, the happiest elFects may be produced if 



