38 LAYING OUT GROUNDS. 



several component parts of such as are generally applied, so far as 

 to enable them to know where they ought to be used, and the effect 

 they are calculated to produce. If more attention were paid to 

 this particular, it would be the means of bringing poor and sterile 

 lands into a state of fertility more readily, and at much less expense, 

 than when proceeding upon a system, or rather no system, founded 

 on mere speculation, or where the nature and properties of the 

 materials used are not well understood. 



The right management and treatment of land are equally necessary 

 to Agriculture as to Horticulture, and from their general importance 

 and utility they should be well appreciated. 



The most appropriate site for building the forcing-houses may be 

 next noticed. These are adapted for utility, but may be ranged so 

 as to form an additional ornament to a villa. It is a subject of gra- 

 tification to the proprietor to inspect their contents, to observe the 

 fruits through their various stages of growth to ripeness and per- 

 fection. The forcing-house should be in a situation of easy access, 

 and should in general have a main walk in front, as visitors, in viewing 

 the beauties of a country villa, take delight in seeing the perfection 

 to which .the art of forcing fruits has attained. The aspect for 

 forcing-houses should be South or South-east, and should be situated 

 at one of the boundary-walls ; the North will be that for the aspect 

 required ; and the motive for placing them near the extremity of the 



