DESIGN FOR A StTBtTRBAN GARDEN. 



[see frontispiece.] 



We give our readers, for examination, the 

 plan of a suburban garden, intended for a 

 piece of ground, measuring about 140 by 

 270 feet. 



This plan is from an elaborate French 

 work, on the de la composition et d^orna- 

 ment des jar dins, and is one of the best spe- 

 cimens of the combination of the useful and 

 the agreeable to be found in continental 

 publications. 



In this plan, A is the dwelling ; B, car- 

 riage-house, wood-house, or gardener's- 

 house ; C, small private court-yard. 



The whole scene immediately round the 

 house is composed of lawn surface, dotted 

 and grouped with ornamental trees and 

 shrubs. Directly in front of the dwelling 

 is a circle of rich, deep, loamy soil, filled 

 with everblooming roses. 



The whole garden is surrounded by a 

 wall, which is covered with fruit trees 

 trained. (For this, a tight or partially 

 open board fence might be substituted with 

 us, upon which the trees would grow 

 equally well.) 



At a distance of nine feet from this wall, 

 on each side, (beginning at E,) is set a 

 row of upright posts, from each of which a 

 stout wire is led to the top of the wall. 

 Over this post and wire a vine is trained, 

 forming garlands a foot apart. Py this 

 means, a pretty effect, and a good many 

 excellent grapes are obtained, while the 

 vines are so far apart as not to prove the 

 least detrimental by shading the trees train- 

 ed on the walL 



At the end of this wall, we come to the 

 semi-circular Ilalian arbor, D. This arbor, 

 which is very light and pleasing in effect, 

 is constructed of slender posts, rising 8 or 

 9 feet above the surface, from the tops of 

 which strong transverse strips are nailed, 

 as shown in the plan. The grapes ripen 

 on this kind of Italian arbor much more 

 peijfectly than upon one of the common 

 kind, thickly covered with foliage. 



Beyond this arbor, and at the termination 

 of the central walk, is a vase, rustic basket, 

 or other ornamental object, e. The semi- 

 circle, embraced within the arbor, is a space 

 laid with regular beds. This is devoted to 

 kitchen garden crops, as is also all the out- 

 side border behind it. The other borders 

 (under the vines, E,) may be cropped with 

 strawberries, or lettuces, and other small 

 culinary vevetables, with a narrow group» 

 ing of flowers near the walk or not, as the 

 taste of the owner may dictate. The small 

 trees, planted in rows on the border, be- 

 tween the walk, E, and the ornamental 

 lawn, are dwarf pears and apples. 



With such trifling variations as different 

 habits and circumstances would at once 

 suggest, it appears to us that this plan is 

 one well adapted to hundreds of neat subur- 

 ban dwellings in the environs of our numer- 

 ous towns ; and we therefore leave it to the 

 study of the owners of such places, who are 

 frequently at a loss how to produce a pleas- 

 ing eflfect without losing sight of the useful ; 

 or, as our French author says, to orner 

 Vutile. 



