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PLEASURE-GROUND. 
Cowley ; and the largest parks are 
sometimes attached to very small 
houses and small pleasure-grounds, 
and the contrary. A 
that prevalent at any former period, 
in including all the scenes and 
sources of enjoyment and recreation 
of the ancient style as well as the | 
For example, adjoining | 
modern. 
the drawing-room front there is a 
terrace or terraces, with or without 
an architectural flower-garden, deco- 
rated with statues, vases, fountains, | 
and other sculptured or architectural 
objects. Beyond this, or connected 
with it to the right and left, there 
may be a lawn with flowers, shrubs, 
groups of trees, ponds, lakes, rock- 
work, summerhouses, or greenhouse, | 
an orangery, and sometimes a bo- | 
tanic garden. Walks may stretch 
away on either, or on both sides, to 
a shrubbery, whi 
day, is commonly framed into an 
Arboretum and Fruticetum, con- 
taining all the hardy trees and shrubs 
which the extent of the scene will 
admit of ; and in the course of the | 
walk through this scene there may | 
be rustic structures ; such as wood- 
houses, mosshouses, roothouses, 
ckhouses, or cyclopzan cottages ; 
Srics cottages, common covered 
seats, exposed seats of wood or stone, | 
temples, ruins, grottoes, caverns, | 
imitations of ancient buildings; and, 
in short, there is scarcely an archi- 
tectural object capable of being ren- 
dered ornamental, and a shelter from | 
the sun, the wind, or the rain, which 
may not find a place. 
introduced in a pleasure-ground in 
modern times, it is only necessary to 
visit such a place as Alton Towers, 
in Staffordshire, where, in addition 
to the objects mentioned, may be 
seen pagodas, hermitages, an imita- 
tion ef Stonehenge, and of other 
Druidical monuments, shellwork, 
gilt domes and huge blocks of massy 
528 
pleasure- | 
ground in modern times differs from | 
; in the present | 
To know all | 
the different scenes which may be. 
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PODOPHYLLUM. 
| rock, bridges, viaducts, and many 
other curious objects. In small 
‘places of an acre or two, the most 
interesting objects which may be 
introduced in a_pleasure-ground, 
'are collections of trees, shrubs, and 
herbaceous plants, which may al- 
ways be arranged to combine as 
much picturesque beauty and gene- 
ral effect as if there were only the 
few kinds of trees and shrubs planted 
_which were formerly in use in such 
'scenes. Where a small place, even 
of a quarter of an acre, is to 
made the most of, there should sel- 
dom be more than one or two trees, 
shrubs, or plants of exactly the 
same kind; and the ornamental 
plants immediately adjoining the 
house, may be combined with the 
veranda, portico or perch, conser- 
vatory, greenhouse or hothouses, 
terrace, flights of steps, balustrades, 
vases, statues, fountains, walks, 
_rockwork, and a. great variety of 
|similar objects, according to the 
taste of the designer, the peculiar- 
ities of the situation, and the ex- 
pense which the proprietor is dis- 
posed to incur. 
Precrra'nruus.— Labiate—East 
Indian and Australian plants, gen- 
erally requiring a stove in England, 
and which are not worth the trouble 
it takes to cultivate them. 
Piumsa'co. — Plumbaginee. — 
_Lead-wort. Greenhouse plants, re- 
markable for their vigorous growth 
|and abundance of flowers. They 
should be grown in light rch soil, 
and they are propagated by cuttings. 
Povo.eris—— Compdsite.— Very 
pretty Australian plants, which 
should be grown in a compost of 
loam and peat. ‘They are all nearly 
hardy ; the perennials are increased 
_by dividing the root, and the annu- 
als (P. gracilis, &c.) by sowing on 
|a hotbed in February or March, 
| and transplanting into the open 
border in March. 
Popopuyiium. — Podophylldece 
