In determining the situation for a large house in the country, there are other circumstances to be considered besides the offices and appendages immediately contiguous. These have so often occurred, that I have established, in imagination, certain positions for each, which I have never found so capable of being realized as at MICHEL, GROVE. I would place the house with its principal front towards the south or south-east. I would build the offices behind the house; but, as they occupy much more space, they will, of course, spread wider than the front. I would place the stables near the offices. I would place the kitchen-garden near the stables. I would put the home farm buildings at rather a greater distance from the house; but these several objects should be so connected by back-roads as to be easily accessible. I would bring the park to the very front of the house. I would keep the farm, or land in tillage, whether for use or for experiment, behind the house. I would make the dressed pleasure-ground, to the right and left of the house, in plantations, which would screen the unsightly appendages, and form the natural division between the park and the farm, with walks communicating to the garden and the farm.
