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situations, as may be found most convenient. The 

 latter forcing-houses may sometimes be erected with 

 propriety in the' dressed grounds, and along with the 

 green-house may form a connecting link between these 

 grounds and the kitchen-garden. The favorite form of 

 the kitchen-garden is the square or parallelogram, and 

 these are more compact than most other forms, and 

 have many conveniences ; but it would be injudicious 

 to disfigure the internal scenery of a place by a servile 

 adherence to any particular plan, when one perhaps 

 equally good, though not quite so regular, can be had 

 by the adjustment of the outlines to those of the 

 ground, or to the positions of surrounding objects. 

 The kitchen-gardens of small residences should be 

 exclusively devoted to fruits and vegetables ; by that 

 means they are more easily kept in order. "Where 

 orchards are planted, they should be connected with 

 the kitchen-garden, or its immediate vicinity ; a few 

 pretty groups of apple, pear, and cherry trees might 

 be formed on some of the less conspicuous portions of 

 the lawn. 



(4.) Trees and Shrubs as the means of Decora- 

 tion in Yillas. — In the marine residence and in the 

 mountain shooting-lodge, trees and shrubs may be 

 awanting altogether, or may exist in only small quan- 

 tities, without their absence or their paucity being 

 sensibly felt. In some marine residences, they can 

 not be grown except under the shelter of a wall or 

 rock; but to the taste of many, a varied shore and an 

 unlimited expanse of sea, with its incessant changes, 

 afford an ample compensation. Again, in the alpine 

 shooting-lodge, the varied outlines of hill and glen, 

 of crag and ravine, of lake and waterfall, of trailing 



