THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, 



Fig. 1372. — A Scene in Rosedale. 



of summer. The St. John's Industrial 

 School for Boys, founded about five 

 years ago, occupies the large brick 

 building at the southern end of the 

 grounds. Mr. Peter Paterson, a mer- 

 chant, enthusiastic in arboriculture, 

 used to live here, and got together a 

 collection of trees of great variety. A 

 broad carriage drive sweeps in from the 

 north through the belt of evergreens 

 that faces the road, bends like a bow 

 and sweeps out at the south, and it is 

 behind this drive that the bulk of the 

 plantation, a growth of some forty-eight 

 years, with its graceful groups and 

 scattered specimens, of picturesque and 

 stately trees, gives charm and majesty 

 to the landscape. 



Conforming with an old gardening 



practice, a terrace with formal flower 

 beds surrounds the house, arjd serves to 

 ameliorate the contrast between the 

 stiff artificial lines of the building, and 

 the natural beauties of the park. In 

 the rear of the edifice lies a pretty old- 

 fashioned fruit-garden, with rectangular 

 plots bordered with box, indicating the 

 old-world tastes of its designer, and re- 

 calling perhaps, tO the mind of its 

 present occupant the scholarly prelate, 

 that delightful description of an ideal 

 garden depicted " in good Queen Bess' 

 glorious days," by the pen of the illus- 

 trious Francis Bacon. Treating of this 

 garden. Bacon says : — 



" For the main garden I do not deny 

 that there should be some fair alleys 

 ranged on both sides with fruit-trees and 

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