36. Fountain which supplies a jet d'eau in the French par terre, (No 31.) and also in part supplies the large lake. No.
37. Large triangular field, enclosed by fences, in the direc tions of the bounding strips, and under the trees. No. 33. Unenclosed meadow land beyond the park, harmonized by (No. 39.) rows and scattered trees. No. 40. Open arable lands. No. 41. Public road. No. 42. Principal entrance. No. 43. Park, which may or may not be subdivided by hurdle fences, in the directions of the strips and avenues. No. 44. Embattled avenue. No. 45. Avenue of platoons. No. 46. Walk to the farm. No 47. Winding walks in the natural forest scenery.
Fig. 1. of Plate CCCXLV. represents a general view of this residence.
Plate CCCXLIV. is a profile of a complete residence in the modern style of laying out grounds ; the trees, as in the other specimen, being supposed, with the exception of such as were already there, to be of fifteen years growth.
This situation, as far as respects surface, is supposed to be exactly the same as the other, a flat, with a ridge or rise in the middle ; but, instead of being situated in a wild country, it is supposed to be surrounded by cultivated fields, enclosed and subdivided by hedges, strips of planta lion, walls, and other fences. A magnificent and comforta ble residence is, in such a situation, to be created by a more relined display of art and human industry than in the for mer case ; and wild nature, now banished from the general surface of the country by extended cultivation, is to he in vited back, as a more elevated and distinguishing descrip tion of beauty, partly as being more rare, and calculated to strike by contrast, and partly as being more suitable to the taste and notions of man, after a certain progress in civili zation and refinement.
Scarcely any motive but general convenience can here be supposed to influence the situation of the house ; the offices and gardens arc disposed on the contrary side to the other, merely to afford some difference between the two designs ; but their general form, style, and elevations, arc nearly the same, in order to exclude any classical asso ciations which a Grecian building might have introduced, and thus have occasioned a partial judgment as to the clfect of the new style of gardening, compared with that of the ancients.
No. 1. Is the entrance portico for carriages to drive under, a mode which should never, in our opinion, be omitted ci either in public or private buildings ; for what can be more ridiculous and inconsistent with our general attention to comforts and luxuries, than issuing from a warm room, and walking half a dozen yards in the rain or wind to en ter a carriage ? No. 2. Hall and grand stair-case leading
to a cloister on the first floor, extending round the quad rangle, and communicating with No. 3 the family stair. No. 4. Stair for married strangers. No. 5. Stair for single strangers, &c. No. 6 Dining room. No. 7. Library. No. 8. Drawing room. No. 9. Music room. No. 10. Kitchen side. No. 11. Chapel. No. 12. Conservatory. No. 13. Glass varandah, or passage open on both sides, a glazed roof, under which vines may be trained, leading to No. 14. Aviary, or garden covered by a wire net ing, 40 or 50 feet from the ground, so as to include forest trees, in which native and foreign birds may range undis turbed, &c. No. 15 Green-house. No. 16. Flower garden. No. 17. Hot-houses. No. 18. Winter garden.,No. 19. Open walk in ditto. No. 20. Covered walk formed entirely of ever greens. No.21. Group of statuary and rock work for winter and early flowering plants. No. 21. Passage, to No. 22. the kitchen garden. No. 23. Forcing houses of approved curvili neal forms, being segments of spheres. (See note to chap. v.) No. 24 Gardener's house. No. 25. Orchard. No. 26. Melon ground. No.27. Walk to farm. No. 28. Back road to stables. NO. 29. Line of wire fence enclosing the pleasure ground. No. 30. Part of the park fed by sheep. No. 31. Broad gravel walk, with an equal breadth of turf on each side, for such as prcf, r walking on that material, shade and cover being produced by planting trees in the line of separation be tween the gravel and turf. No. 32. A similar walk in the park, or forest scenery. No. 33. Permanent sunk fence be tween the deer park and that part to be grazed by sheep. No. 34. Bridge over the lake. No. 35. Park scenery. No 36. Cultivated scenes, harmonized by bringing one arable field, No. 37. into the park, and extending trees, No. 38. and grass, No. 39. among the arable lands. No. 40. Situations for furze, briars, ferns, and other low growths. No. 41. Ap proaches. No. 42 Public road. No. 43. Fickls appropriat ed to the park. the lences of the public road being sunk walls. No. 44. Farm. No. 45. Barn. No. 46. Bailiff's house and garden. No. 47. Straw yards. No. 48. Rick yard. No. 49. Line in which a riding may be taken, or in which carriages may drive round the park, and from thence in any desirable direction, with a view to enjoying the beau ties of a riding.