LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



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 

 arbors were added with as little regard to symmetry as possible, and an arrange- 

 ment of clumps containing large shrubs crossed the end of the garden, completely 

 shutting out the view of the meadow, and diminishing the prospect of the distant 

 country. Xear the centre of each compartment of turf was a peculiarly unplant- 

 able 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 common flowers and shrubs. Bits of rock- 

 work, shellwork, and old blocks and stumps were scattered about, and generally 

 these specimens of the grotesque were surmounted with a vase or statuette. 



The great, faults in this case were the shutting out of the extended prospect, 

 the cutting up of the garden into small patches, and the complete exposure of all 

 the walks, as though they were the most important features of the garden. The 

 first of these was rectified by clearing away the clumps near the pond, the second 

 by destroying the centre walk, and the third by fringing the broad turf plot so 

 obtained with clumps for flowering and other shrubs of moderate growth, which 

 would rectify the obtrusiveness of the sidewalks, and be subservient to the larger 

 shrubs beyond them. 



In the new arrangement a centre was obtained upon a line from the fountain, 

 at right angles with the building ; and to give a balance to the basis of opera- 

 tions, a large projecting mass of close-clipped evergreen was introduced, to cor- 

 respond with the shape of the drawing-room bow, which also served to aid in 

 concealing the ofiices and yard on the right hand side of the house, and the yard 

 itself was considerably contracted, that it might be effectually planted out on 

 both sides from the garden. 



Parallel with this centre line, and equidistant from it, the two sidewalks were 

 laid down, and the use of box edging confined to the right hand side, where 

 double lines are shown, and where it was most in keeping from its contiguity to 

 the greenhouse ; on the left hand side turf was used up to the shrubs, which were 

 pegged down to meet it and conceal the margin. The two sidewalks were curved 

 round so as to meet each other near the pond, which was made less artificial in 

 outline, and rendered a more endurable object from wherever it could be seen. 

 From these walks a branch was made to lead to the summer-house and meadow 

 wicket on one side, and on the other side towards the kitchen garden. The 

 branch walk leading to the back of the greenhouse was so curved as to render it 

 less obvious, and in a circle of gravel, as shown, was placed, upon a suitable 

 pedestal, one of the best of the statues — one we found stuck up in the fork of an 

 old Mulberry tree ; and on the opposite side of the garden a corresponding nichi 

 made for its companion. The other architectural embellishments, in 



