Fig. 13. in p. 56. is a view of the entrance-front of this villa, the ground occupied by which consists of two portions, represented in figs. 8. and 9. The narrow portion, next the public road, shown in fig. 8., contains the approach, the house, the kitchen-garden, and the flower-garden; and the wider portion (fig. 9.) shows the paddock, or sheep pasture. The whole lies on a gentle declivity, facing the south; the farther extremity of the field being probably 50 ft. below the level of the road, at the entrance-gate at 1, in fig. 8. In fig. 8., the ground plan of the narrow part of Mr. Nesfield's grounds, are the following details, furnished by Mr. Nesfield:- 1, Entrance by a close gate, 6 ft. 6 in. high. 2, Avenue of syca mores, bounded on each side by a laurel hedge cut nearly per pendicular, like a clipped hedge, and allowed to be high enough to screen the kitchen-garden, &c. There are other laurel hedges in the kitchen-garden marked l. 3, Boundary, consisting of a quick fence and ditch. 4, Entrance front of the house. 5, Lawn, which descends very rapidly to the flat surface upon which is placed the house. In consequence of the frontage being so long and narrow, it was impossible to place the house upon the level (i. e. where the lawn is separated from the kitchen-garden), because the south view, which is extremely desirable, would have been contracted to nearly half the width which is now seen; and, as the kitchen-garden and other requisites would have destroyed the character of the view from the south, which now in itself assumes the appearance of a park-like field, there was no alternative, but that of adop&&& different sites indicated on the plan, for the lower flower-garden, kitchen-garden, &c.; particularly as there is no view northwards. The objects therefore, of descending to the carriage-sweep in front of the house &&& accounted for. 6, Dug ground, containing a variety of ornamental trees and shrubs &&& margins are devoted to low flowering shrubs, &c. 7, Flower-garden, upon two levels. 8, Walk connecting the kitchen-garden with the flower-garden, along &&& of lime trees. 9, Kitchen-garden, having a holly hedge from the gardener's entrance &&& the yew hedge near the corner of the house (b); the remaining hedges are all common laurel. 10, Melon ground and pond. 11, Orchard, and potato and mangold wurzel ground, &c. 12, Belt of spruce and Scotch firs. 13, Gardener's communication with the public road, when manure and other materials for the gardens are wanted to be brought in. 14, Approach to the stable-yard. 15, Grass drying-ground, on a lower level than the approach, and screened by a dense mass of evergreens, &c. h, House-yard. s, Stable-yard. 16, in figs. 8. and 9., Boundary plantation, fenced towards the field with furze (kept clipped), concealing from the flower-garden a sheep-hut and little stack-yard (x). 17, in fig. 9., Groups of thorns and other trees. The frontage of the villa adjoining Mr. Nesfield's at c in fig. 10. is the same size as his own; and, as both places were built by the same architect (A. Salvin, Esq., Mr. Nesfield's brother-in-law), and laid out at the same time, care was taken that where the ground was planted thickly in one villa, it was planted thinly in the other, and vice versa; so that each villa might aid the other in producing its general effect, and in sacrificing as little ground as possible in planting.
