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establishmeiit^ and there is in tliem such a community 

 of objects and operations as to warrant this union. In 

 some cases^ too^ borders of flowers and of ornamental 

 plants enter into the combination, and then they form 

 what may be called mixed gardens. These mixed gardens 

 are certainly finer than mere vegetable grounds, and 

 they requii'c a superior style of keeping ; but when this 

 system of combination is carried so far as to supersede 

 the flower-garden proper, we think it greatly to be 

 deprecated. In England the mixed garden is of rarer 

 occurrence than in Scotland. In the latter country we 

 not unfrequently meet with extensive parks in which 

 there is no separate flower-garden, and where all the 

 departments of both horticulture and floriculture are 

 jumbled together with much confusion. Undoubtedly 

 a greater amount of ornamental effect results, but con- 

 siderably less expense is incurred in keeping when the 

 last is wholly separated, or when at most the fruit and 

 kitchen gardens only are placed together. In the fol- 

 lowing remarks we shall not advert further to the mixed 

 garden, but shall confine our observations to those 

 grounds which are exclusively fitted and intended to 

 yield a supply of fiTiit and vegetables — a matter of no 

 small importance to a family residing in the country. 



Site. — The primary consideration in reference to 

 these gardens is their site, and more particularly its 

 position in relation to the other parts of the park and 

 grounds. Their unpicturesque appearance is such as to 

 require that they should be screened, if not entirely hid, 

 from the main points of ^^iew in the surrounding park, 

 otherwise they prove detrimental to the general scenery. 

 Certainly they should not be visible from the principal 

 approach, nor from the windows of the mansion-house. 



