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THE ELOEAL WOELD AND GAEDEN GUIDE. 



design complete, they cannot as yet be 

 particularized till much consideration is 

 given to a selection of plants already pre- 

 pared for removal from the Society's gar- 

 dens at Chiswick. Many seats and small 

 tazze will be introduced about the gardens, 

 which the small scale of the plan renders 

 it difficult to show ; these are omitted, and 

 sites for principal sculptures only are given. 

 The architecture is represented by light 

 shading; walks, white; grass slopes of ter- 

 races and groups of shrubs, dark shade. 



A, entrance from Exhibition Eoad ; B, 

 centre walk to aute-garden, leading to prin- 

 cipal garden ; 1, basin for nymphcea ; 3, 

 ferns and rock-plants ; 5, tall trees, round 

 and spiral ; 6, belt of evergreen shrubs ; 

 7, compartment for American plants, with 

 grass alleys ; 8, belt of evergreens, to 

 seclude the American compartment ; 9, 

 pheasantry, fifty feet by thirty feet ; 10, 

 mass of shrubs ; 11, aviary for song birds ; 

 12, maze, formed by yew or hornbeam 

 hedges, about a quarter of an acre ; C, en- 

 trance from Prince Albert Eoad ; D, centra 

 walk to principal garden, on a higher level 

 than ante-garden ; 13, basins; 14, diagonal 

 grass promenade (access by grass ramps) ; 

 15, large compartment for flowers and box 

 embroidery ; 16, mass of very low shrubs ; 

 17, group of low trees ; 18, shrubs of me- 

 dium height ; 19, avenue of spiral evergreen 

 shrubs ; 20, standard Portugal laurels on 

 the verges, which latter are fifteen inches 

 above the surfaces of compartments and 

 promenades ; E, branch walk to conserva- 

 tory terraces ; 21, circular compartment for 

 flower-beds and box embroidery ; 22, stan- 

 dard roses ; 23, dwarf evergreen shrubs ; 

 24, large basin, with cascade eighteen feet 

 wide and eleven feet high ; 25, compart- 

 ment for flower-beds (without embroidery), 

 accompanied by, 26, groups of flowering 

 shrubs, etc. ; 27, standard rhododendrons ; 



F, lower or first terrace ;" G, second ter- 

 race ; 28, memorial sculpture for Great 

 Exhibition of 1851 ; 29, large trees ; 30, 

 baud-houses (east and west) on circular 

 paved platforms ; H, third terrace ; 31, 

 kerbed beds for flowers between steps to 

 conservatory arcade ; 32, belt of shrubs ; 

 K, upper terrace, on a level with upper 

 corridor ; 33, steps down to band-house 

 and lower terrace ; 34, kerbed bed for tall 

 flowers ; 35, steps to the lowest level of 

 the garden ; 36, canals for running water 

 supplied by cascades ; 37, walks round 

 canals (seats under retaining walls of east 

 and west terraces) ; 38, basin with jets ; 

 39, steps to lower terraces, opposite centres 

 of middle corridor ; L, centre cross-walk 

 from east and west corridors ; 40, avenue 

 of standard roses, and beds for dwarfs ; 

 M, middle corridor walk ; 41, frieze com- 

 partments for medium-sized flowers ; 42, 

 kerbed beds for tall flowers ; 43, moulded 

 kerbed beds, with large tazze for tall 

 flowers ; 44, group of low flowering shrubs ; 



45, spiral plants and simple kerbed beds for 

 tall flowers, such as dahlias and hollyhocks ; 



46, panels of east and west corridor ter- 

 races, with lime-trees on their flanks ; 47, 

 glacis sloping towards canals, each embel- 

 lished with embroidery only (the object of 

 the glacis is that the running water of the 

 canals, together with all other features 

 across the garden, may be visible from the 

 corridor or first terraces) ; N, south cross- 

 walk of principal garden ; 48, bridge and 

 steps ; 49, ramp, to descend to the level of 

 canals ; P, walk under the bridge, leading 

 through the lower corridor of ante-garden 

 (E) ; ET, walk from north to south lower 

 corridor ; S signifies sites for principal 

 sculptures, whether for figures or large 

 tazze. The upper terrace, K (above the band - 

 house), would be favourable for statues of 

 eminent botanists and horticulturists. 



A DEENCHING BOAED FOE CLEANSING PLANTS. 



In using tobacco liquor, Gishurst com- 

 pound, and other vermin killers, there is 

 usually a great waste, and what is perhaps 

 worse than waste, the stuff gets into the 

 soil and perhaps docs as much harm to the 

 plant at the root as the cleansing may have 

 done good overhead. Dipping the plant 

 head downwards cannot always be prac- 

 tised, and it is a slow process ; the syringe 

 often splashes the stuff where it is not 

 wanted, and in any case is wasteful. We 

 were lately shown a contrivance in wood, 

 invented by a gentleman who has found 



Gishurst compound an effectual vermin 

 killer, and it struck us that a figure of it 

 would enable any of our readers either to 

 construct it or get it constructed at a very 

 small cost. As may be seen by the figure, 

 it is merely a sloping board of half-inch 

 deal, broader at the top than bottom, with 

 sides five inches high turned at. the front 

 so as to catch the rim of a pot laid on the 

 slope, the front being open for the flow of 

 the waste into a pail. The board is mounted 

 on legs, and the dimensions are given in the 

 cut. By placing a pail under the front , 



