GARDENIA. 
tecture prevail, others in which the ! expensive, and it is generally best 
Grecian forms prevail, and so on.|to contract with a nurseryman to 
In all these styles the great art is to | keep the garden constantly in order, 
adopt such forins as are favourable | 
to the cultivation and display of 
plants ; and for this purpose round- 
ish beds, or such as have obtuse 
angles, are preferable to long nar- 
row beds, or such as have acute an- 
gles; because the former are most 
convenient for stirring the soil, and 
the surface is more readily covered 
with plants, without at the same 
time causing the plants to spread 
over the boundaries. Hence long 
narrow beds are generally covered 
to excess by the plants spreading 
over the outline on the walks or 
spaces between; and in acute-an- 
gled forms the angles are not suf- 
ficiently covered. —See Fiower- 
GARDENS. 
GarpENER.—To keep a flower- 
garden in perfection, it is necessary 
to have a good gardener, unless the 
amateur understands how the va- 
rious operations of gardening are to 
be performed sufficiently well to be 
able to direct an indifferent gar- 
dener, or a common labourer, how 
to execute them. The difference in 
wages between a common gardener, 
and a man who understands his 
profession, is commonly about 201. 
or 30/. a year; as an ordinary gar- 
dener generally costs about 20s. or 
25s. a week, without lodging, while 
for 30s. a week, with lodging, a gar- 
dener may be obtained who under- 
stands the propagation and culture 
of all ordinary plants, and how to 
keep a garden in good order. ‘Thus, 
those persons who wish to have a 
show-garden, will find it the best 
plan, if their grounds are large, to 
employ a good gardener, and to 
leave every thing to his direction, 
(for a really good gardener will not 
bear to be interfered with,) allowing 
him to employ labourers as he may 
and full of plants during the whole 
summer. This plan is frequently 
followed in the neighbourhood of 
London ; and, as an example of the 
expense, I may mention that Mr. 
Hopgood, of the Bayswater Nurse- 
ry, contracts to supply Captain 
Mangles, whose house and garden 
in Cambridge Terrace are so much 
and so deservedly admired for their 
show of flowers, for 7O0/. or 80I. 
a-year, keeping the beds and boxes 
full of plants and flowers from March 
to November. This is by far the 
most economical plan; for, as be- 
fore observed, a first-rate flower- 
gardener cannot be obtained under 
701. or 80/. a-year. The great en- 
joyment of gardening, however, in 
my opinion, is only to be obtained 
by the amateur who gardens him- 
self, and who understands the prin- 
ciples or reasons upon which each 
operation is founded; and, there- 
fore, I should recommend all per- 
sons fond of gardening, and espe- 
cially ladies who have sufiicient 
leisure, to manage their gardens 
themselves, with the assistance of a 
man to perform the more laborious 
operations. It sometimes happens 
|that a man-servant in the family, 
who is not over-burdened with in- 
docr duties, will answer this pur- 
pose ; but it is generally preferable 
to employ a man who has been 
brought up as a gardener. 
GarpeE'nia. — Rubidcee. — The 
Cape Jasmine, greenhouse and stove 
shrubs, most of which are natives 
of the East or West Indies, with 
large and handsome flowers, which 
are generally white. G. florida, 
the com non Cape Jasmine, obtain- 
ed its English name from its having 
been first brought to England from 
the Cape of Good Hope, where it 
think proper; but if the grounds be | was found cultivated in a garden, it 
small, this plan will be found too! being a native of China. 
All the 
