THE FLORAL WORLD 



AND 



GARDEN GUIDE. ' 



FEBRUARY, 1868. 



SKELETON PLA^^ EGR A SMALL GAEDEX. 



X accordance with a promise made in the November 

 jS^o. of the Eloral World, we have again dipped into 

 our portfolio, and found a plan which will probably 

 prove to be one of the most useful heretofore published. 

 It is one we prepared not long since for a gentleman 

 who had purchased a beautiful site for the erection of a villa resi- 

 dence, and which is now in process of being carried out. The 

 position is quite rural, hut the dimensions of the garden are far 

 too restricted both for the size of the house and its charming sur- 

 roundings. The garden terminates on a river bank; beyond the 

 river there is a large lake, beyond the lake a broken sky line, 

 consisting for the most part of distant plantations, but with a church 

 and a few other buildings just visible amongst the trees on the 

 horizon. At E. H., on the right-hand margin of the plan, is an ugly 

 building of considerable size, an engine-house, which requires to 

 be planted out, but the view right across to the south, and especially 

 to the south-east, it is desirable to keep open. "When receiving 

 instructions as to the drawing of this plan, we were desired to provide 

 for croquet, to give as much richness as possible to the foreground, 

 to make plenty of room for fruit trees, and to apportion a plot for 

 kitchen garden and frame ground. A few remarks on the character 

 of the scheme will explain how far these wishes of the proprietor 

 have been studied, and how far the plan itself may be useful to our 

 readers. 



The total length of the plot is 200 feet, the breadth 120 feet. 

 The whole piece is divided pretty nearly into three equal parts, 

 respectively devoted to the dwelling-house, the pleasure garden, 

 and the kitchen garden. As the ground slopes downwards from the 

 house, and the river and lake beyond are on a higher level than the 

 kitchen garden, the last-named portion scarcely requires to be 

 planted out, but rather it is desirable to keep the view open as 

 much as possible, and merely to embellish the foreground in such 

 a manner as to make it a proper accessory to the residence, and a 

 suitable prelude to the scenes that lie beyond. 



