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5, the Winter Garden, with covered walk open to the south, 



which is a luxury that no place should be without. 

 N° 6 is the Monks' Garden restored. 



" The close dipt box, th' embroider'd bed 

 " In rows and formal order laid, 

 " And shap'd like graves (for mindful still 

 " Of their last end, the church doth will 

 " E'en in their joys her sons should be 

 " Pensive in very gaiety)." 



Hon. Mrs E. Erskine. 





N° 7, disposed in groups, the various kinds of foreign Trees 



which will bear so sheltered an enclosure. 

 8, availing ourselves of a very large building, the Magnolia 



d other American plants will here 



n 



an appropriate 



situation 



N 9 and 10, are Gardens with beds raised to meet the eye 



an 



very 



nlike any other garden. The Grotto is an excava 



tion formed out of an old pool, instead of filling it up 



the whole 



of N° 12 has 



formed into small hills 



and valleys, and so surrounded by plantation, that its ori- 

 ginal flatness is totally disguised. In the Rosarium, N° 13, 

 is proposed a Fountain, supplied from the holy well, and 

 then led into the grotto, from whence it is finally conducted 

 into the drinking-pool in the park, presenting from one and 



th 



e same source a redundance of water und 



different 



appearances. 





