The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . Fig. Well House. The old well, built of cut stone, and laidup at a time when work was done honestly,stands about 30 feet from the front of thehouse. The old well-house is shown in Fig. as altered; with all fences removed. Theeffect of this was to increase the apparentsize and extent of the grounds. The darkershade on plan represents the part devotedto lawn and ornamental planting, and thelighter shade the fruit and vegetable gar-den. The fruit garden lying next thelawn. HA V, 12X12 1 3 Fig. ^.—New Plan of Bam. enclosures w
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . Fig. Well House. The old well, built of cut stone, and laidup at a time when work was done honestly,stands about 30 feet from the front of thehouse. The old well-house is shown in Fig. as altered; with all fences removed. Theeffect of this was to increase the apparentsize and extent of the grounds. The darkershade on plan represents the part devotedto lawn and ornamental planting, and thelighter shade the fruit and vegetable gar-den. The fruit garden lying next thelawn. HA V, 12X12 1 3 Fig. ^.—New Plan of Bam. enclosures which now hide all wood-piles,wagons, compost heaps, rubbish, etc., areentirely out of way of the orderly neatnessof the dress grounds. Tlie fence on the leftdivides the lawn and garden from the pas-ture ; this fence, being a light one, doesnot obstruct the view, so that the lawn,apparently uniting with pasture and haylands, gives great extent of view. Thesurplus of the garden is easily fed out tothe cattle in adjoining Fig. 11.—r;i« old WeU House , and in Fig. 11 we show what we didto it at a total expense of four dollars inthese high-priced times. 38 TJie Horticulturist. Directly opposite the end of the veran-dah was the small entrance gate, as shownin Fig. 12. The path from this gate ledstraight to the corner post and along theedge of the platform. This point of en-trance we removed twenty feet, and nowapproach the house by a ourved line of walk. Fig. 13 shows the style of entrancewe have planned for erection in the this we are indebted to the serviceablehints of the accomplished author of MyFarm of Edgewood in the valuable illus-trated articles from his pen, for which secvolume of the Horticulturist for 18G5.
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