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68 Choice ofa House*
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liberal supply of water after a long drought . Every one knows that a garden sloping to the south or south-east not only produces earlier crops , whether of culinary
vegetables , fruits , or flowers , than any other , but that it may also be 'walked in through the greater part of the winter . Grass fields open to the south produce earlier pasture , and the corn grown on arable land so situated ripens sooner . "
" The Position of the House relatively to the shape or outline of the plan of the garden in which it stands , is a matter of importance in residences of the smallest size . The reason is , the house may be so placed as to throw a shadow over a
great part of the _garden every day in the year ; or it may be so placed as to throw no shadow on it at any time , or only a partial shadow . The great disadvantage which every small garden has , as compared with a large garden , is the shadow thrown on it by the boundary walls ,
or by the house or adjoining houses ; and , if an intending occupant will bear this in mind while looking out for a house , it will aid him in obtaining what ought to he considered a great desideratum in a suburban residence ; viz . a garden but moderately shaded by walls and houses . In the case of a road in
the direction of east and west , with houses and gardens on the north side of it , if the houses in these gardens are placed next or near to the road , it is evident that they will shade great part of the garden behind them every day in the year ;
and , on the other hand , if the houses are placed at the farthest extremity of the garden , that they will shade no part of it any day in the year . In this latter case , the garden , even in London ( along the New road , for example ) , might be
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rendered a splendid scene , both from the street or road , and from the house of the occapant ; while in the former , it never could ( as is actually the case with the gardens on the north side of the New road ) be made productive of either much
beauty or much use . In the case of the houses and gardens along the south side of a road running from east to west , if the houses are placed close to the road , the whole of the garden will be exposed to th _6 sun every day in the year . We do not state these facts with a view of
leading to the conclusion , that all houses on the south side of an east west road should be built close it , and all those on the north side as far from it as the garden will permit ; but , simply , to impress on the minds of our readers , who have a
suburban residence yet to choose , the great importance of taking the subject of shade and sunshine into consideration when a garden is one of their main objects ; and to enable those who already have suburban residences to determine whether
their gardens are suitable for the culture of the finer plants , or only for more ordinary productions . " " Garden . —One of the greatest of all the sources of enjoyment resulting from the possession of a garden is , the endless variety which
it produces , either by the perpetual progress of vegetation which is going forward in it to maturity , dormancy , or decay , or by the almost innumerable kinds of plants which may be raised in even the smallest garden . Even the same trees ,
grown in the same garden , are undergoing perpetual changes throughout the year ; aud trees change , also , in every succeeding year , relatively to that which is past ; because they become larger and larger as they advance in age , and
68 Choice Ofa House*
68 Choice ofa House *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 68, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/66/
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