Fig. 1793. Plan of Mr. Beall's Grounds. 



DIRECTOR THOMAS BEALL AND HIS HOME. 



'HE series of excellent articles by W. 

 H. Manning-, of Boston, on Land- 

 scape Gardening- has stirred up con- 

 siderable interest among our readers on this 

 important subject. It was with much pleas- 

 ure that we recently opened a mail packet 

 and found it to contain a series of views of 

 the g-rounds surrounding the home of Mr. 

 Thos. Beall, of Lindsay, our well known 

 representative from the County of Victoria 

 accompanied by the following note : 



"The photographs presented herewith may 

 not, as pictures, be specially admirable, but in so 

 far as they show effects which may be produced 

 in treating a nearly level, uninteresting piece of 

 land, which had been stripped of every tree and 

 bush, and by following as nearly as possible the 

 rules for laying out grounds as given by the best 

 authorities on such matters, it is hoped they may 

 be of service to some of your readers who have in 

 view the planning of a home. 



"The ground plan given is of the eastern posi- 

 tion of the plot (the whole being five acres in ex- 

 tent). The house shown at A is placed over two 

 hundred feet back from the street. (The house 

 " B " built recently was not completed when the 



place was laid out), and the entrance gate is about 

 sixty feet from the north east comer of the prop- 

 erty. 



"The pictures Nos. i, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 respec- 

 tively are views taken from the positions marked 

 by corresponding figures on the plan. No. 6, 

 however is merely to g^ve some faint idea of the 

 appearance of the Tartarian Honeysuckle in bloom 

 at maturity when not spoiled by injudicious prun- 

 ing. This shrub now measures nineteen feet in 

 diameter and is fourteen feet high in the centre. 



"The writer laid out these grounds and 

 planted, or superintended the planting, of ever>' 

 tree and shrub shown m these photographs." 



In volume XV of this journal, pag-e 195, 

 we give a sketch of the life of Mr. Beall, 

 who has now been on our directorate for 

 twenty-two years. 



Mr. Beall was born in Cornwall, England, 

 in 1828, and came to Canada in 1840, set- 

 tling at Lindsay in i860. Recently he has 

 been appointed organizing director of Affili- 

 ated Horticultural Societies, a work in which 

 he has rendered excellent service both to the 

 societies concerned and to our Association. 



