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there is a chance in the first case that he will sneer at it. If we get 

 over that, there is next a chance that he will attempt a winding walk 

 and a series of clumps in the English style, for which there cannot 

 be sufficient space ; or that he will take an Italian fit, and run up a 

 long bill of costs for encaustic tiles, statuary, stone steps, balus- 

 trades, and other imeatable gingerbread. This was a very pretty 

 garden before it underwent its last modifications. It consisted of 

 iust such a plot of turf as is now represented, but the turf was^«^. 

 The borders were all aslope, and displayed a very rich combination 

 of bedding plants. The great merit of the present scheme, and 

 indeed its one peculiar and original feature, is that the large grass 

 plot in the centre, and the circular clump near the windows of the 

 house, are moulded to a series of elegant waving superfices. Perhaps 

 I shall be better understood if I say that the surfaces of each of the 

 two principal features are worked into elegant and symmetrical 

 undulations. 



It is impossible to convey a just idea of the soft, pleasing, and 

 highly artistic eftect, which the artist has endeavoured to represent 

 in the accompanying pictures. Nevertheless, all that a skilful 

 pencil can do has been done, and I beg the reader to turn to the 

 ground plan and observe the sectional lines A and B, for further 

 explanation. 



The section A is dravni through the centre of the garden across 

 from right to left. It shows the boundary walls, the borders, the 

 walks, the central compartment with the statue, and gives the exact 

 amount of each depression and elevation. 



The section B is drawn through the centre of the garden length- 

 wise. It sbows the small border in front of the conservatory, the 

 circular clump near the windows, the walk, the elevations and 

 depressions of the central compartment, the statues, the hollyhocks, 

 and the shrubs that fill up the extreme rear beyond the arch, shown 

 in the bird's-eye view. 



Between the dwelling-house and garden is a very pretty con- 

 servatory, entered from a sitting-room, and through this usually is 

 the way to the garden at the point C. In front of the conservatory 

 wall is the semicircular clump shown in the ground plan ; this is 

 simply a border filled with a mixture of hardy herbaceous and 

 bedding plants. The large circular compartment which we arrive at 

 next, consists of a groundwork of undulating grass, with four small 

 shrubs, where the depressions are deepest, and a great diamond- 

 shaped clump of gladioli and cannas. "When all were in bloom 

 together, this was a splendid feature, but the noble foliage of cannas 

 is always ornamental, and this therefore is a good summer bed. 

 The large central compartment is a grass plot undulated. It has 

 around it a sharp rim, which was planted last summer with varie- 

 gated mint and blue lobelia. On the inner side this rim is cut down 

 about six inches, and then the turf swells up gradually to the centre, 

 as is most correctly shown in the section B. The embellishments of 

 the plot are six flower-beds and some very pretty plants, the latter 

 being yuccas, small Irish yews, and junipers, all small, neat, and 

 appropriate. The statue in the centre is really much more appro- 



