222 PLAN 01 A HOWEK GARDEN l-'OR BRITISH PLANTS. 



ARTICLE IV.— On a Plan adapted for a Flower Gar- 

 den, to he devoted e.rehixirelij to Plants i)tdi<jenotis to 

 Great Britain. By Mr. F. F. Astiford. 



I here present for insertion in the pages of the Cabinet, if deemed 

 worthy of admittance, and worth an engraving, the annexed plan. 

 It is an intended representation of a native flower garden, or a 

 portion of ground appropriated exclusively to plants indigenous 

 to Great Britain. Our own native productions are often looked 

 over, and, as it were, not observed at all, except by the scrutinising 

 eye of the scientific and acute botanist ; while exotics of foreign 

 countries are introduced, and suffered to engage our attention, to 

 the depreciating and undervaluing of our own : while, if a suitable 

 spot of land were allotted for the cultivation of indigenous plants 

 alone, I have no doubt but it would form a garden not to be ecpiallc d 

 for beauty, fragrance, or continuance of flowers, by any similar 

 place planted with the picked produce of foreign countries. 



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A is intended to be an elevated piece of rock-work, planted with 

 dwarf niountaiuous plants, regulating their appearance and diver- 



