TOWN GARDENS. 



Town Gardens are those which skirt a town, and are usually of small extent, 

 generally, indeed, occupying only the front of the house. Unquestionably, 

 such gardens are best laid out in the formal style. It is absurd to make the 

 least attempt to imitate rude nature in such places where the eye easily falls 

 upon the square boundary, and on every other point at once. 



I have given a sketch, (Plate 1, figure I.) as an example of what I 

 consider best for a place of this kind, when it may not be thought necessary 

 to drive up to the door ; and another shewing a carriage drive (Plate 1, figure 

 •2). Gardens such as these ought to be composed of fine turf, and should 

 be furnished with handsome low trees and interesting shrubs, — not planted 

 indiscriminately with all kinds of large shrubs. Forest trees are out of the 

 question. I will name a few that I think the most suitable low trees for a 

 smoky atmosphere ; such are double and single crimson thorns, snake-barked 

 maple, various weeping trees, cut-leaved birch, red cedar, Hemlock- spruce, 

 double blossomed cherry, Cotoneaster frigida, hollies of sorts, laburnums, snowy 

 mespilus, Gleditschia triacanthos, Araucaria imbricata, and Cedrus deodara. 

 Though the two last-named attain to a large size in their native country, 

 there will be no danger, in these localities, of their becoming too large for 

 many years, indeed, for a century to come. Amongst the evergreen shrubs 

 which stand smoke best, are the Aucuba japonica, Rhododendron ponticum, 

 Irish yew and Irish juniper, arborvitas, Erica stricta, multifiora, and carnea, 

 box, laurustine, variegated hollies, Phillyrea ilex, Phillyrea angustifolia and 

 oppositifolia, Arbutus regia, and Mahonia aquifolium. Deciduous flowering 

 shrubs, in consequence of shedding their leaves in autumn, are not so hable 

 to be injured by smoke as evergreens are; therefore, the deciduous plants 

 ought to be the more largely employed, not forgetting the spring and 

 autumnal roses, fuchsias, red and white mezereons, the white, red, and 

 double ribes, Weigelia rosea, Spirea salicifolia, Douglasii, Lyndleyana and 



