THE FLORAL WORLD 



AND 



GARDEN GUIDE. 



DECEMBER, 1806. 



A NOVEL AND ELEGANT TOWN GAEDEN. 



f E are bouud to accept tlie axiom that tlaere is notliing uew 

 under the sun, yet when things appear new to us, and 

 at the same time worthy of admiration, surprise is added 

 to the number of our enjoyments ; and with every 

 enjoyment of a novelty there is combined a sense of 

 edification, which afi:brd3 satisfaction when surprise is past. I beg 

 the reader to accept the foregoing fragment of philosophy as the 

 intended total of my moralizings over the pictures now presented of 

 the garden of my much-loved friend, James Crute, Esq., of Holloway. 

 This garden is of small extent, and is the breathing space allotted to 

 a comfortable villa, where my friend resides. I had been, during 

 the past summer, exploring the wonders of a great garden vi'here the 

 plant-houses cover about four acres of land, and immediately on my 

 return home, I went to see Mr. Crute, and was much more astonished 

 and delighted at the beauty of his little garden, than with all the 

 magnificence I had bat just then left. I had been familiar with the 

 garden aforetime, but I had not seen it since it had undergone 

 certain alterations, and I remembered that those alterations had 

 been designed and carried into effect by my friend during a season 

 of sickness, which compelled him to neglect his city business, and 

 for a season almost completely prostrated his powers. I was curious, 

 therefore, to see the result of ingenuity exercised under such peculiar 

 circumstances, and I repeat that it was with astonishment and 

 delight that I found the result greatly to exceed my expectations. 



Let us now to business. This garden is one of the many thou- 

 sands that abound in the suburbs of London. An oblong slip, 

 walled in right and left, and, fortunately, with a pleasing prospect 

 bejond, over grounds well timbered. Nevertheless, if it iiad not 

 this advantage of trees beyond the boundary, the hands that designed 

 the beautiful scene now represented would have hit upon some 

 method of obviating the discordance of a look out upon flat walls 

 and angular chimneys, which is the sort of prospect common to 

 London gardens. The dimensions of the portion dressed are shown 

 on the ground plan, the length being eighty feet, and tlie breadth 

 thirty-six feet. If we call in a landscape gardener to such a plot, 



