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GENERAL FORMATION, &a, OF GARDENS. 



to succeed the crops of the hot wall in 

 front of the garden, because its line suited 

 the disposition of the ground beyond it, 

 marked mm, &c., and occupied as a market 

 garden, noted for precocity and abun- 

 dant crops for many years. The north 

 side of the wall alluded to is covered with 

 a holly hedge, which we removed from 

 the old garden, in pieces of about 3 to 4 

 feet each, and which is the same height 

 as the wall, 9 feet. The ground marked 

 m m is very irregular in surface, and 

 divided into compartments to suit the 

 various falls. It is planted with standard 

 fruit trees in lines, about 50 feet apart : the 

 spaces between the trees, and in the same 

 line with them, are planted with goose- 

 berries and currants, leaving the quarters 

 between the lines open for kitchen crops. 

 In this ground there is a great variety of 

 soil, as well as of aspect — points we con- 

 sider of some importance in a kitchen and 

 fruit garden, particularly the former, where 

 such varieties of crops naturally exist. 



The references o, r, and s, will show that 

 the situation we have chosen is on the out- 

 skirts of the park — which we consider to be 

 of advantage in a large place, as it admits 

 of a free communication with the public 

 roads, &c, and hence prevents the inconve- 

 niencies so often complained of, of carting 

 on the approaches, and having the work- 

 people and visitors passing through the 

 park, and disturbing that quiet and pri- 

 vate enjoyment in general sought and 

 expected in parks and pleasure-grounds. 

 There is also another advantage of having 

 a large garden on the outskirts of a park — 

 namely, that it is never likely to come 

 in the way of after improvements or al- 

 terations. 



According to our original plan, the 

 gardeners house was to have been placed 

 at K, upon rising ground, from whence a 

 general view of all the hothouses and 

 most of the principal garden would have 

 been secured. Circumstances, however, 

 led to an alteration in this part of the 

 plan, and the present house, 38, was 

 adopted — one of the best and most com- 

 modious gardener's houses in the king- 

 dom, and quite in accordance with the 

 liberality of His Grace, who provides 

 every member of his various extensive 

 establishments with houses not merely 

 comfortable, but in fact far superior to 

 those of servants in general. 



From the natural disposition of the 

 ground, it rising 8 feet on the west, at 

 the terrace bank G G, and falling as much 

 as 50 feet on the east, leaving only room 

 for the carriage-entrance to be brought 

 in, it follows that it would have been 

 impossible, even had it been desirable, to 

 have placed the immense quantity of 

 glass in one continuous line, as exempli- 

 fied at Frogmore. We therefore filled 

 up the spaces at each end of the front 

 range with a very handsome cast-iron 

 balustrade, and placed the four pine- 

 stoves, 7 7 7 7, in a line with the cold 

 pits, 21 21, 22, 23, and exactly opposite 

 to the balustrade openings, so that in 

 viewing them from either of the side- 

 walks, they present the appearance of a 

 second range behind the front one. The 

 effect is good, and the convenience of the 

 arrangement has met with commendation. 



For the way in which water is supplied, 

 vide art. Water ; and for liquid manure, 

 vide Tanks and Cisterns. Plans in 

 detail will be found in the articles 

 Vineries, Peach - houses, Pineries, 

 Greenhouses, Pits, Walls, &c. 



As an example of a garden upon the 

 largest scale and adapted to a first-rate 

 residence, and considered merely as a 

 culinary and fruit garden, of nearly 12^ 

 acres in extent, we offer the subjoined 

 plan, fig. 21, designed by us two years 

 ago for a nobleman since dead. The 

 surface to be rendered level, or with a 

 slight inclination to the south-south-east, 

 or south-west, or to points intermediate 

 between these, (vide direction of the 

 arrows) ; but, in whatever direction the 

 fall is, it must be uniform, so that the 

 copings of the walls may run parallel to 

 it. The whole to be enclosed with a 

 ha-ha or rabbit-proof wire fence, as 

 shown by the outer line in the illustra- 

 tion. The principal feature in this 

 garden is convenience, extent of walling, 

 and uniformity of plan. 



References to the plan : a a peach- 

 houses, each 50 feet long, 20 feet broad, 

 and 8 feet high from the ground to the 

 bottom of the valleys ; the trees to be 

 grown as dwarf standards, or trained over 

 the roof according to taste ; b b vineries 

 of the same dimensions and principles as 

 the peach-houses ; c c pine-stoves, each 

 50 feet long and 15 wide ; d late vinery, 

 50 feet long and 15 feet wide, to be heated 



