The house is Roman, large, but totally without merit as a piece of architecture. The kitchen-garden and farm offices are at some distance from the house, on the other side of a public road, and the walk to them is through a plantation of trees in masses, in which one kind always prevails in one place, but in which each mass is so blended with the mass adjoining as never to appear formal. We should prefer arriving at this garden by a tunnel under the road, and we would so contrive the walk, after it passed through the tunnel, that no part of the garden should be seen till we were half-way down the slope on which it stands. We should then enter the garden at a point where we would look up to the terraced walls, instead of looking down upon them; and, after passing through the garden in a horizontal direction, we should enter another walk on the opposite side (having a branch to the farm buildings), and return to the pleasure-ground scenery by a second tunnel, or even by the same one. The present mode of descending to the kitchen-garden, by the walk that passes the gardener's house, is bad, on account of the steep descent by a straight walk with steps. The garden itself is excellent, and does Mr. Main, who fixed on the situation eight or ten years ago, great credit. The outsides of the walls are sheltered from lateral winds by projecting constructions of wattled work, which are found very effective. There is a commodious and very handsome gardener's house, in a situation that overlooks both the garden and the farm. It must be recollected in this and in all similar cases, that our suggestions are made after first, and we may say momentary, impressions, without time to test them by reflection and reasoning.
