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give such directions on this subject as mil meet every 

 exigency. Varieties of situation are continually oc- 

 curringj which must be treated with a reference to their 

 own peculiarities. We may^ however, remark in conclu- 

 sion, that villa residences are more frequently spoiled by 

 ill-judged attempts at fine approaches than by any other 

 mistake, except perhaps the wrong selection of a site for 

 the house. We know scarcely anything in more mise- 

 rable taste, than a house with a broad mural fa9ade and 

 a door in the centre, standing far back in a vista, and 

 occupying its whole width, while the foreground of the 

 picture is taken up with a disproportionate road winding 

 across the grounds, and leaving space in its flanks only 

 for Hi-grown turf or paltry shrubberies, or, what is worse 

 still, lines of potatoes and cabbages, and the necessary 

 deshabille of unenclosed kitchen ground. The disap- 

 pearance of such sights is surely devoutly to be wished. 



The Kitchen Garden. — Where the taste of the pro- 

 prietor inclines chiefly to the possession of ornamental 

 grounds or to the cultivation of fine plants, want of 

 space may require the omission of the kitchen garden, 

 and in the \dcinity of vegetable markets the privation 

 may be inconsiderable ; but in most places, and particu- 

 larly in remote districts, the culinary department of the 

 garden is at once a necessary and an interesting appendage 

 to a villa. It requires a compartment separate from the 

 ornamental grounds. The proper site must be deter- 

 mined by the lie of the ground, and especially by the 

 arrangements of the house. Obviously the kitchen 

 garden should not be on the entrance or drawing-room 

 fronts ; or, if it must be placed on these sides, it should 

 be removed to such a distance and screened in such a 

 way as to conceal all disagreeable objects, and so as to 



