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upon picturesque old stumps ; finally, no garden of the kind is con- 

 sidered complete without its fountain, rockvvork, and lake. 



These various items are crowded together in so small a space, that 

 from the windows of the house they are all under the eye at the same 

 time ; and care has generally been taken, for the sake of contrast, that 

 the parts least in harmony with each other should be placed most 

 closely in juxtaposition. 



It is only confusion and disorder we would be understood as objecting 

 to, not variety. The exhibition of skill in arranging a garden consists 

 not only in the careful adaptation of the parts to their proper effects and 

 purposes, but also in arranging their order with reterence to each other, 

 so that they shall combiiiedly form a harmonious whole ; and these 

 points duly kept in view, as much variety should be introduced as the 

 space admits of without crowding. 



As examples are more illustrative than a long dry discourse, we have 

 selected a case in point from amongst those which have come under our 

 consideration, and give engravings by which we can render more intel- 

 ligibly an idea of what the garden was and of what it is now. 



The house is pleasantly situated in one of our suburban villages, 

 having its entrance towards the pubhc road, and looking from the 

 garden side over a flat agricultural scene, with which the house stands 

 too much on a level. In front of the house a respectable piece ol 

 garden extends itself, flanked by a shrubbery on both sides, and 

 bounded by a pond between and the extended meadows beyond. On 

 the right is the greenhouse, at the end of one of the oflices, incon- 

 siderately placed so close to the garden as to make it an impossibility to 

 conceal it by planting without materially encroaching upon the ground. 

 Further to the right stand coach-house, stables, and other offices, and 

 beyond these a large kitchen garden. 



The house itself is of plain red brick, unpretending in its archi- 

 tecture, and of a description which would require considerable outlay to 

 give it a degree of ornamentation. The drawing-room, ending with a 

 large bow on the left hand side of the group, being the only important 

 room on that side of the house, it rendered the arrangement of the 

 garden difficult ; this, however, had been managed without the slightest 

 reference to any windows of the house or in any other way with regard 

 to it. The ground was simply cut longitudinally by a walk somewhere 

 about the middle, and across again about half way in the other 

 direction, and, strangely enough, without any regard to right angles ; 

 and where these two lines intersected a fountain was introduced — other 

 walks were made on each side of the garden, on one side a straight one, 

 and on the other an example of the serpentine, and were joined at each 

 end by other irregular ones ; two arbours were added with as little 

 regard to symmetry as possible, and an arrangement of clumps con- 

 taining large shrubs crossed the end of the garden, completely shutting 

 out the view of the meadow, and diminishing the pros})ect of the distant 

 country. Near the centre of each comjiartment of turf was a pecu- 

 liarly unplantable bed, with four long points, having a shrub in 

 the centre, and intended to contain half-hardy plants, &c. The outer^ 

 borders were all bounded with Box edgings, and contained mixtures of 



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