LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
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slope near a water-pipe for washing carriages. About the centre of the 
side opposite the stable-doors of this yard, there is a dung place, sur¬ 
rounded by a wall about three feet high, over which the dung from the 
stables is thrown. This dung-hole abuts againsts the melon-ground 
wall, through which there is a gate for the convenience of the 
gardener. 
Next in order to the coach-yard lies the melon or frame ground, 
extending the whole width of the kitchen-garden. It is about fifty feet 
wide, which gives ample room for a rank of frames along the centre, 
with mould and mushroom sheds against the coach-yard wall, and space 
behind for a strip, separated by a privet-hedge to screen the hot-beds, 
with a gravel walk of five feet, and a border of eight against the front 
wall of the garden. 
Above this is the walled kitchen-garden, containing about two acres 
and a rood within the walls. The surface has a gentle declivity to the 
southward, and divided into twelve-feet borders within the walls all 
round, and a surrounding five-feet walk, with a longitudinal and cross 
walk intersecting each other in the centre, where there is a basin of 
water. - • 
At the top of the garden are three hot-houses, viz. a pinery, a vinery, 
and a peach-house, with sheds and gardener’s house behind. Above 
these buildings there is a semicircular fruit-orchard of about half an 
acre; and in the shrubbery opposite the laundry there is a small in¬ 
closed drying-ground. On the outside of the side walls of the garden 
are fruit borders, walks to admit a cart when necessary, with a thick 
hedge to separate it from the shrubbery which surrounds it. 
Now, Sir, be pleased to consider that all these subdivisions of the 
place which I have named as succeeding each other in position from the 
mansion-house to the orchard, are all embraced by a broad band of 
dressed ground, separated from the park by the ha ! ha ! before alluded 
to. This cordon of pleasure-ground (so called in contradistinction to 
profitable ground) is diversified by the finest trees, the most showy 
shrubs, the gayest flowers, upon an undulating carpet of the most ver¬ 
dant turf, and intersected by easy and pleasant gravel walks, winding 
by natural sweeps among the groups of trees and shrubs, and encom¬ 
passing the whole of the domestic appendages from the east round 
to the west side of the mansion, without gate or interruption of any 
kind. This is accomplished in consequence of the carriage-road being 
led through a hollow into the back court, and over which a light iron 
bridge is thrown, connecting the pleasure-ground on each side. The 
cart entrance into the gardens and coach-yard is subterranean, enter¬ 
ing into the face of the bank on the east side of the garden, where 
