By inspecting the plan fig. 157., 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 accommodation 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 farmyard, and of the hot-house and frame departments, as exhibited in the plan, fig. 159. On the side of the grounds opposite to the hot-houses and flower-garden are the kitchen-garden and orchard; and though in most situations 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; because the public road, as will be seen by the plan fig. 165., forms a ready medium of communication between them, in cases in which the communication through the ornamented ground would be unsightly or inconvenient. In arranging the pleasure-ground, the great object, as in all similar cases, was to introduce as much variety as could be conveniently done in a comparatively limited space. This has been effected chiefly by distributing over the lawn a collection of trees and shrubs; by forming a small piece of water, and disposing of the earth excavated into hilly inequalities; and by walks leading to different points of view, indicated by different kinds of covered seats or garden structures. In conducting the walks, and distributing the trees and shrubs, considerable skill and taste have been displayed in concealing the distant walks, and those which cross the lawn in different directions, from the windows of the living-rooms; and also in never showing any walk but the one which is being walked on, to a spectator making the circuit of the grounds.
