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JOURNAL OP HOBTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GABDENEB, 



[ Octoier 7, 1875. 



of their pendant branches. Ample repose is alBO afforded by 

 the bold semicircular sweep of lawn along the enter margin, 

 of which a chain of circular beds of Dahlias and Hollyhocks 

 impart an air of finish and dignity that is very grateful. The 

 scene is a perfect one, with every feature in fullest harmony, 

 denoting a master hand equally in its original design and in 

 its present treatment, affording a useful lesson to all who may 

 wish to embellish the surroundings of a lofty building of formal 

 aspect. Nor is this all, for after regarding this particular 

 point as so worthy of admiration for itself alone, we are com- 



pelled to recognise its peculiar fitness and unity with those 

 parts of the grounds adjoining it. Let us glance at them. 



Proceeding from a central part of the terrace garden towards 

 the rosery, we leave for a time the gayer masses of bright 

 colour of the ordinary bedding type, and pass along winding 

 walks among masses of shrubs where the flourishing groups of 

 Ehododendrons, enlivened just now with a lovely fringe of 

 Lilium lancifolium rubrum, are as remarkable for the graceful 

 irregularity of outline as for the pleasing effect of the deep 

 green foliage in contrast with the bright and more chequered 



1. Colens. 



2. Lobelia Blae King. 



3. Tagetes. 



Fig. 68. — Carpet bed at the crystal palace. 



4. Ivy FelargOQiom Dote of Edinbnrgb. 

 6. Cerastium. 



6. Altemantbera paroDychyoides. 



7. Pyrethram Golden Feather. 



8. Alternantbera versicolor. 



9. Mcsembryanthemum cordifoliam varlegatDm. 

 10. Echeveria Becunda glauca. 



aspect of the terraces. Beyond these shrub groups on the 

 slopes below the terraces are large beds treated in a singularly 

 bold and successful manner by mixing the showy Tritoma 

 with dwarf Dahlias, Phloxes, Hollyhocks, and a dwarf form of 

 the yellow Helianthns, all in large bold clumps and sufKciently 

 apart to avoid confusion. Prominent dispersed clumps of 

 Hollyhocks and Dahlias next attract the eye, and then comes 

 the Deodar lawn on the one hand, and dense masses of shrubs 

 of an irregular but pleasing outline on the other; beyond which 

 the rosery, bright with its belting of gay beds and its graceful 



surroundings of undulating lawns, carving walks, masses of 

 shrubs, and noble Conifers, meets the eye precisely at the point 

 where its effect can be most fully appreciated. 



One pauses here, for the scene is well worthy of contem- 

 plation and study, and the question involuntarily arises, Why 

 is this particular part of the garden which one has visited so 

 many times always as fresh and interesting as it was at first ? 

 I think the answer is found not simply in the keeping of the 

 grounds or the planting of the beds, to all of which due praise 

 must be given, bat in the contoui and designing of the grounds 



