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of two-inch pipes laid down, to drain 

 it into the ditch, which was widened 

 and deepened to improve the fall. 

 An open water-course was then cut 

 along the fence, from /, to the ditch, o, 

 and the piece, n, was planted with 

 three rows of hush fruits ; raspberries 

 next the trench, /, then a row of black 

 currants, and in front of these, nearest 

 the walk, a row of gooseberries. A 

 May Duke and an Elton cherry were 

 added in a line with the two apple 

 trees; they were planted on hard plat- 

 forms, and the holes filled in with 

 loain and turf. 



The other side of the walk, where 

 there is a pair of apple trees, was 

 already stocked with old red currants, 

 very much grown together. These 

 were merely thinned and pruned, but 

 next year they will be grubbed up, and 

 the piece replanted. The next thing 

 was to lay out a piece for roses, which 

 thrive everywhere about Stoke New- 

 ington ; the turf was removed from 

 the two sides of the bed, marked 2?, 



the house, the trees were found to be 

 fit only for fire-wood, and, excepting 

 one nice Blenheim, down they came, 

 for the admission of sunlight from the 

 south-west side. The turf will not be 

 disturbed further, except for half-a- 

 dozen pincushion beds for standard 

 roses and bedding plants, and the three 

 fanciful beds on plan 1, will be turfed 

 over and extinguished, for though 

 these do not look amiss on paper, they 

 have a most ungainly and cockney sort 

 of appearance at present, and so their 

 days are numbered. In spring, the 

 border, a, f, g, will be planted with the 

 best evergreens, in groups, and with a 

 selection of showy, herbaceous peren- 

 nials. 



Now, from the front windows, look- 

 ing north, the view consists of a 

 low, ivied fence to the left, above 

 which tower some fine acacias, elms, 

 and maples in the adjoining gardens, 

 so that until you have really examined 

 the details, the garden that way seems 

 of boundless extent, for the eye readily 



the ground trenched and manured, the I scales the green fence, and rests on the 



central bed enlarged, and a couple of 

 Chinas, with immense heads, that 

 stood originally at q q, and which had 

 long been out of the perpendicular, 

 were taken up, pruned head and 

 foot, and cleared of suckers, and 

 planted at s s, and their places sup- 

 plied with a pair of standard Duchess 

 of Sutherland's. Some climbing roses 

 were then planted on each border, at 

 t ; and in the spring these will be trained 

 over an arch, across the path. The 

 central bed is planted with dwarf 

 hybrid perpetuals, with a standard 

 white rose in the centre. The border 

 round each way, from s to q, is also 

 planted with roses in three rows, as 

 to heights, with standards and tall 

 growing dwarfs towards the fence, 

 where spaces are left for some holly- 

 hocks to tower up above them on each 

 side. At p p, a pair of pillar roses 

 completes this part of the plan. From 

 the windows and along the path, the 

 view will in future be very gay, and 

 with the large evergreens at I I, the 

 arch at t, and the pair of standard 

 Chinas at s s, will be pretty well shut 

 in, as a scene distinct in itself. On 

 the west side, between the rosary and 



intermixture of branches beyond it. 

 Then, in front, there is a winding path, 

 quite of a piece with the turf and the 

 old trees ; and looking forward, there 

 is just enough of picturesque confu- 

 sion, and yet a clear view for at least 

 two-thirds of the entire length — in fact, 

 as far as the bee-house, u. In that direc- 

 tion, the garden blends itself with the 

 meadows beyond, the rear fence be- 

 ing old privet, and not a stick of wood- 

 work or paling visible. On the right 

 hand, E, the boundary, is another 

 hedge of mixed privet, elm, lime, etc., 

 with a fine fir tree breaking the straight 

 line at z, so that though closely 

 bounded, the boundaries are green 

 and every way the picture is agree- 

 able. 



Now, the way to spoil this garden 

 would be, to adopt precise forms, and 

 introduce a few bits of very white 

 statuary. Everything about it is rus- 

 tic, and the bee-house, at u, is of rustic 

 wood-work, with a thatched roof, so 

 that rustic baskets will come in very 

 fitly to stand about on the turf. To 

 make the border, v, next the house, as 

 gay as possible, without verbenas and 

 geraniums, the old aucubas, that 



