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the result is sucli a view from the dining-room as Mr. Damman has 

 endeavoured to reproduce for the entertainment of our readers. 

 jN'ow, is not this a novel affair ? I am bound to say that I was as 



much surprised as delighted with it when I first saw it, because the 

 colouring of the whole scheme is as rich and tasteful as its con- 

 figuration, as I hope to show next bv a short description of the 

 garden. 



As the plan stands on the page, the portion of the garden seen 

 from the oval window is the lower cross-piece, which is marked 

 out in three distinct compartments, with oval bed in the centre, and 

 in the other two compartments circular beds. The other portion 

 passes up in the rear of the gardens of the adjoining houses. At 

 the foot of the page is a section of what may properly be called the 

 promenade garden. The section will show that the garden, length- 

 wise, is laid in three levels, rising in succession from the window 

 to the rear, where the boundary consists of a border of trees ; and, 

 fortunately, beyond this is a church, which considerably improves 

 the prospect. 



Mention has been made above of the beauty of the colouring of 

 this scene as viewed from the oval window. This will be understood 

 from what follows. The three levels of turf consist of Spergula 

 pilifera, the smoothness and vivid emerald green hue of which, when 

 well kept, surpasses the best grass, much as grass in good condition 

 surpasses docks and daisies. Here is a case as rare as it is delight- 

 ful, of spergula having justice done it, for it has not a break, a worm- 

 cast, or a tuft of weeds to mar its uniformity of velvet smoothness 

 and softness ; and the two little slopes where the levels change afford 

 agreeable linos across, which — without any trickery, for there is none 

 — add considerably to the apparent dimensions of this little plot, 



