Identifier: illustratedannua1860thom (find matches)
Title: The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year ..
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob)
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture Almanacs, American
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : Luther Tucker
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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rows, and consist ofdwarf pears, dwarf apples on doucain stock, gooseberries, currants andraspberries, and dwarf plums. Between these rows the ground is culti-vated by horses, the garden vegetables being planted in drills to admitthe passage of a narrow cultivator. There is perhaps an imperfection in this plan. To constitute it a finished specimen of landscape gardening, the ornamental portion of the ground should lie more in the rear from the public road. A residence with ornamental grounds only towards the highway, has a shallow and ambitious appearance—indicating more desire to be admired by strangers, than to secure domestic comfort, privacy, and rural beauty. This defect, however, is not very prominent in the present plan. \ Fig. 15 is the y^lan of about three acres occupied as a garden and orna- JA mental grounds, belonging to a gentleman residing near Liverpool, Q England, and given iu Kemps Landscape Gardening. The public road ^c:^ -=^3gg ©c:^— ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL REGISTER
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SCALE OF FEET 10 so 10 20 30 40 SO\-\-\ 1—I—I—I—I— ^ eoo Fig. 15.runs nearly east and west, on the north side of the dwelling; the finestviews are only towards the south-east and south-west, in which directionthe surface of the land descends. The house is therefore made to frontthose views, and not as many would absurdly make it, tovvards the road,which is an object possessing no interest whatever as a component part ©c:^-- OP RURAL AFFAIRS. 241 of a beautiful natural scene. To the right of the house (1) the view isentirely obstructed by trees, which shelter from the westerly winds, andwhich also partly conceal the carriage-house and stables, (4) leaving asmall entrance from the circular sweep to the carriage yard (3.) Thecarriage-sweep passes round a large ash tree. The conservatory (6) liestowards the kitchen garden (9.) The portion of the grounds nearest thedwelling, (shaded in the design,) is planted with trees, and kept as asmoothly shaven lawn; it is separated from th

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