ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 
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The house, a, stands quite near the bank of the river, 
while one front commands fine water views, and the other 
looks into the lawn or pleasure grounds, b. On one side of 
the area is the kitchen garden, c, separated and concealed from 
the lawn, by thick groups of evergreen and deciduous trees. 
At e, is a picturesque orchard, in which the fruit trees are 
planted in groups, instead of straight lines, for the sake of 
effect. Directly under the windows of the drawing-room is 
the flower garden, f ; and at g, is a seat. The walk around 
the lawn is also a carriage road, affording entrance and egress 
from the rear of the grounds, for garden purposes, as well as 
from the front of the house. At h, is situated the ice-house ; 
d , hot-beds ; j, bleaching green ; i, gardener’s house, etc. In 
the rear of the latter are the stables, which are not shown on 
the plan. 
The embellished farm, ( ferme or nee), is a pretty mode of 
combining something of the beauty of the landscape garden, 
with the utility of the farm, and we hope to see small 
country seats of this kind, become more general. As re- 
gards profit in farming, of course, all modes of arranging 
or distributing land are inferior to simple square fields ; 
on account of the greater facility of working the land, in 
rectangular plots. But we suppose the owner of the small 
ornamental farm, to be one with whom profit is not the 
first and only consideration, — but who desires to unite with 
it something to gratify his taste, and to give a higher 
charm to his rural occupations. In fig. 24, is shown 
part of an embellished farm, treated in the picturesque style 
throughout. The various fields, under grass or tillage, are 
divided and bounded by winding roads, a, bordered by 
hedges of buckthorn, cedar, and hawthorn, instead of 
wooden fences ; the roads being wide enough to afford 
