342 THE FLORIST. 



Conqueror (Keynes). — Rosy lilac striped with black ; distinct and 

 good. 



Ladi^ Paxlon (Keynes). — Red, tipped with white ; same class as 

 Miss Frampton. 



Cleopatra (Salter). — Yellowish orange, striped and spotted with 

 red ; good flower, and attractive. 



In addition to the above there were some fine blooms of older 

 varieties. The finest were Colonel Windham, Captain Ingram, and 

 a noble bloom of Yellow Beauty — on the whole decidedly the best 

 yellow to grow (Bessie being so hard to get). Pre-eminent also and 

 Grand Sultan were finer than we had before seen them. The Fancies 

 suffered more in carriage on the whole than the selfs ; this is the cause 

 of the report on the former not being so full as it would otherwise 

 have been. 



(Signed) John Downie, 



John Lamont, 



Sept. 20tk. C. K. SlVEWRIGHT. 



HINTS ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 

 As I fear the principles which should be the groundwork of all attempts 

 to adjust the grounds and scenery in connexion with country residences, 

 however humble, are either imperfectly understood or rarely acted 

 upon, I send you a few observations as they occur to me, in reference 

 to this subject, considering your very useful Magazine a suitable 

 channel for allowing my own views on this important department of 

 rural affairs to drift under the notice of your readers ; and with some 

 hopes that the question may be taken up by others of your correspondents 

 for mutual discussion. Unprofessionally connected with the subject 

 myself, excepting as having had to deal with the remodelling of three 

 places in the country where I have been located, I have nevertheless 

 been a pretty close observer of the glaring faults in taste and composition 

 which are committed even by gentlemen of admitted authority on 

 matters connected with other branches of the fine arts, and therefore 

 presume either inattention to a few general principles, or ignorance of 

 what constitutes good taste, prevails to a great extent. As a proof of 

 this rather sweeping assertion, we have only to notice, when on a tour 

 through country places, the want of congruity and true taste in com- 

 position, in the grounds adjoining the residences of many of our clergy, 

 the villas of retired merchants, and the more ambitious seats of country 

 gentlemen, and they will, I feel assured, be satisfied there is a wide 

 field for improvement in all. 



Previous to noticing what is doing in our own day, it may not be 

 out of place briefly to comment on the labours of those who have gone 

 before, but whose works nevertheless remain, as the touchstone of their 

 capacity for composing garden scenery, or for embellishing on a wider 

 scale the parks and domains of landed proprietors. A long array of 

 names is now before us of those who have contributed to build up our 

 fame, or afford a theme for censure. Statesmen and philosophers, 

 poets and novelists, painters and sculptors, landscape gardeners proper. 



