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whole of the boundary wall may be fronted with glass sashes, with a curvilinear 

 roof, trellising the walls, on which to train climbing plants. In place of a 

 glass promenade a covered colonnade or arcade may be erected, with open 

 arches on each side, divided by pilasters of lattice or wire work, from twelve 

 to eighteen inches broad, on which handsome climbing plants must be trained. 



Botanic Garden. 



The Botanic Garden should be at no great distance from the Flower 

 Garden, but yet distinct from it, and approached by a shrubbery walk. It 

 should be formal in its arrangements, and entered upon at one point, having 

 either gently winding or straight walks ; and should have its plants grown in 

 their regular classes and orders, so as to offer the least interruption to the 

 botanist whilst pursuing his studies. 



I think that the borders should be sufficiently narrow (as shown in the 

 General Plan for a Country Residence) so that the spectator, in moving along, 

 may examine the whole of the plants without having to traverse both sides. 

 It will be seen that I have only shown three lines of beds; therefore, in laying 

 out the garden, a calculation will have to be made of the extent required, 

 and, if necessary, strips must be added or made longer. 



The walks may be five feet wide, with grass verges two feet wide, and 

 one continued strip of earth, three feet wide, for the plants. Each family may 

 be separated from others by large descriptive styles, or tallies, or by cast-iron 

 edgings, or (what would be better still J by narrow edgings made of burnt fire- 

 clay. Then there should be another strip of grass six feet broad, and after 

 that a border of shrubs. When there are additional walks, the strip of grass 

 should be of the same width on each side of the botanic border, and the last 

 strip of grass, next the shrubs, should be of the breadth above-mentioned — 

 six feet ; or, in place of grass verges, the edges between the walks and beds 

 may be of stone, slate, cast-iron, or fire-clay, all of which I prefer to box, or 

 any other five edgings, which (as already said) not only harbour slugs, but, as 

 the borders are very narrow, tend to impoverish the earth and injure the plants; 

 or circuitous slips might be formed by this kind of edging, instead of the 

 straight one, setting off from the boundary of the plot, and coifing round 

 and round, until it closes in the centre with a seat, or some other kind of 

 ornamental erection. 



