O ARRANGEMENT OF GAEDENS AND PLEASURE-GROUNDS 



seeing the progress which has been made in their cultivation, 

 the immense addition made to the varieties of those previously 

 existing, and the great number of new sorts introduced, it would 

 be vain to institute a comparison between the choicest flower 

 garden of that date and one of our own time. But there is one 

 point on which the author leaves us in the dark ; I mean the 

 respective beds or situations in which the vegetables and herbs 

 and flowers are to be placed. It is true that he has given a 

 general plan in a woodcut, of which I subjoin a copy, and which 

 it will amuse the readers of this Journal to decipher and ex- 

 plain. 



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There is no need, however, for us to assume this to be the 

 only plan to be carried out. The general principles of the sys- 

 tem are quite enough for our purpose, and for bringing before 

 the reader's imagination the prevailing fashion of those days. 

 Whether the vegetables and herbs or the flowers were placed 

 nearest to the house it is difficult to decide, and, indeed, is of 

 very little consequence ; for beyond having pretty flowers in 

 certain seasons, there seems nothing to redeem the offensive 

 ugliness of the whole design. The moderate space of ground 

 assigned to the garden and pleasure portion altogether, the for- 

 mal herbers, the rigidly straight and carefully sanded alleys, the 

 equally straight and formal walks, the oblong and peculiarly 

 formal beds, are features quite sufficiently commanding in their 

 repulsiveness to prevent any arrangement of the most beautiful 

 flowers within those formal spaces from yielding delight to the 

 eye. But each of those beds in which flowers were cultivated 



