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ral design, but furnishing working-drawings of all the details of the inte- 
rior of the cottage. His reason for fixing on the present situation for the 
house was, the vicinity (the grounds joining) of a house and walk be- 
longing to a relation of his late wife. This circumstance is mentioned 
as accounting in one so fond of a garden, for fixing on a spot which had 
neither tree nor shrub in it when he first inhabited it. Mr. Harrison in- 
forms us, and we record it for the use of amateurs commencing, or ex- 
tending, or improving gardens, that he commenced his operations about 
thirty years ago, by purchasing, at a large nursery sale, large lots of ever- 
greens, not 6 inch, high, in beds of one hundred each, such as laurels, Por- 
tugal laurels, laurustinuses, bays, hollies, &c. ; with many lots of decid- 
uous trees, in smaller numbers, which he planted in a nursery on his own 
ground ; and at intervals, as he from time to time extended his garden, 
he took out every second plant, which, with occasional particular trees 
and shrubs from nursery grounds, constituted a continual supply for im- 
provement and extension. This, with the hospital ground mentioned 
hereafter, furnished the means of extensions and improvements at no 
other expense than labour, which, when completed, gave the place the 
appearance of an old garden ; the plants being larger than could be ob- 
tained, or, if obtained, safely transplanted, from nurseries. This is an 
important consideration, in addition to that of economy, well worth the 
attention of amateur improvers of grounds or gardens. 
By inspecting the plan, Fig. 4, it will be found that the house contains, 
on the ground floor, three good living rooms, and two other rooms ( n and 
g) particularly appropriate to the residence of an amateur fond of botany 
and gardening ; and that it is replete with every description of accomo- 
dation and convenience requisite for the enjoyment of all the comforts 
and luxuries that a man of taste can desire for himself or his friends. 
In laying out the grounds, the first object was to insure agricultural 
and gardening comforts ;■ and hence the completeness of the farm-yard, 
and of the hot-house and frame departments, as exhibited in the plan, 
Fig. 6. On the side of the grounds opposite to the hot-houses and flower- 
garden are the kitchen-garden and orchard ; and though in most situa- 
tions it would have been more convenient to have had the farm buildings, 
the kitchen garden, and the hot-houses on the same side as the kitchen 
offices, yet in this case no inconvenience results from their separation ; be- 
cause the public road, as will be seen by the plan, Fig. 13, forms a ready 
