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poor attendance of purchasers. The best bed consisted of 235 rows, 

 seven in a row, which gives 1645 bulbs in the long bed alone. They 

 were sold in lots of one row each, the highest lot fetching 60s. only lor 

 the seven roots. There were many very fine and valuable seedlings 

 sold equally low in price. There is now, therefore, a probability of the 

 finest of Mr. Groom's flowers finding their way into many more 

 collections than have hitherto contained them, at least we do not think 

 exorbitant prices will stand in the way. We were pleased to see that 

 the unnamed breeders, with a few exceptions only, fell into the hands of 

 one person. This will prevent confusion hereafter, as we do not want 

 a repetition of the Chellaston mixture again, having quite " aliases " 

 enough already. 



We have annually inspected Mr. Groom's collection when in bloom, 

 and in May last we noticed as being fine, which are but little known : 

 — Marquis of Bristol, Orpheus, Lord Raglan, Louis Napoleon, Duke of 

 Newcastle, Dr. Horner, Mr. F. Perkins, Earl Stamford, and Omar 

 Pacha These are bizarres. The following are bybloemens : — Duchess 

 of Cambridge, Baron Gersdorff, Eurydice, Viscountess Canning, and 

 Themis. Good roses were not numerous ; Lady Grey, Fleur de Marie, 

 Princess Mary of Cambridge, and Miss E. Seymour were the principal 

 of Mr. Groom's seedlings in this class. 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING. No. IV. 

 The accompanying plan was made for a case which may be taken as 

 the type of a very large class of London villa residences, comprising an 

 elegant and well-arranged mansion of comfortable dimensions, and a 

 pleasure-ground of two or three acres, well furnished with magnificent 

 shrubs. On one side of the house the coach-ring separates it from a 

 lawn, appropriately occupied by clumps of choice shrubs. From the 

 next side extends a long broad lawn, fringed on each side by fine 

 detached specimens of large shrubs and trees ; and the third side, which 

 was most contracted, and unavoidably so, had, nevertheless, a very fine 

 distant landscape, which only required a little improving in the way of 

 cutting down non-ornamental trees which interfered therewith. 



The weak points were — the poverty of the foreground on this side, 

 which was the more to be regretted, as the library and drawing-room 

 looked out upon it ; — the absence of the element of flower-garden, or 

 rather, that the beds occupied by the usual plants coming within the 

 meaning of the phrase, were scattered about, and most of thtm out of 

 sight of the house ; — and that the house itself was simply seateil upon 

 the cold turf, the abruptness of the connection between it and the sur- 

 rounding almost natural scenery being unsoftened by any transition link. 



There being a slight inclination from the house, we took advantage of 

 this to obtain a gravel terrace, broken only by a few shrubs, some of 

 which were existent, and we arranged the boundary curb with reference 

 to them. Beneath this we extended a level platform, as a fitting place 

 for the parterre proper. We believe the woodcut and reference table 

 will explain the cut. The beds are bounded with Box, and the feathers 

 springing out of the volutes of side scrawls are also Box. The whole is 

 laid down on white shell gravel. 



