Fig. 31. shows a plot of ground, in which the houses which is 30 ft. by 20 ft, has a front garden of neatly the same sire, and a back garden about 90 ft. in length by 30 ft. in breadth. The kitchen of the house is half sunk under ground, and the ground floor is ascended to, from both gardens; by five steps; There may be a privy and a dusthole in a sunk area (d) at the back of the house, on a level with the kitchen; and at the bottom of the garden there is a board projecting from the wall or fence, which will be covered with ivy, and under which, on two brackets, may be laid (by pushing them in endwise) the clothes-posts, when hoi in use. The ground having been properly levelled, and drained if necessary; the central bed is marked out, and places for the clothes-posts ($ 79) are sunk at the four corners. There is no manure-tank or well, because no part of the ground is to be dug; but there may be a small pit sunk in the ground, with ft cover fitted to it, at the bottom of the garden, at e, under the clothes-post bracket, for any decayed leaves or twigs, which may be required to be removed in the intervals between the stated times that a man comes to mow the grass.

From the entrance gate or door (a), a walk 4 ft. broad is formed to the front door of the house (b): along one side of this walk, under the grass, the water service-pipe is laid; and on the other side the gas-pipe, if any; The landing to the back door is at (c), under which are a safe or small larder, and also the water-cistern. A small cistern over the privy, at the other end of the area, protected by a double roof, with the interstice stuffed with hay, would render this an excellent water-closet. A walk 3 ft. wide is conducted round the garden, the space between it and the wall forming a border 18 in in width, except at the bottom, where it is 2 ft. wide, in order to make room for the refuse pit at e, over which is the clothes-post bracket. The plot of ground in front, and also the whole of that behind, with the exception of the walks, may be sown with grass seeds, or laid down with turf, and the walks laid with flagstones, or slates, or paved with bricks on edge, instead of being gravelled, in order to save trouble in keeping them in order.