DESIGNS FOE ORNAMENTAL GROUNDS. 21 



This design has been expressly made with the view of 

 keeping in order cheaply. 



The lawn, or what is to be kept in sod, is as much as 

 possible in regular straight lines, easily mowed with some 

 of the patent lawn-mowers. 



The walks are wide, as, starting from the bottom of 

 the terrace, they will be overlooked the whole length 

 from the top, and would appear scanty if not of liberal 

 dimensions. 



The place is intended to be kept as private as possible, 

 a sort of open-air saloon, by a belt of selected shrubbery, 

 and shade trees in its rear. 



At 1, there are seats indicated in several recesses cut 

 into the shrubs, the seats to be of heavy timber, as stone 

 would be rather too cool, and iron or rustic work not 

 looking architectural enough. 



At 2, there are pedestals for pieces of statuary, or vases 

 or large specimen plants in painted boxes. 



At 3, 4, and 6, groups of Roses, bedding-out plants of 

 broad, showy foliage, or flowering shrubs, such as Hydran- 

 geas, which continue long in bloom. 



At 5, the centre piece, there is a large flower-bed for 

 Scarlet Geraniums, Feverfew, etc., surrounded by a border 

 of Irish Ivy, kept in line, so as not to exceed 12 to 18 

 inches in width. 



Such borders of Ivy, if employed in the right place, 

 and well kept in order, are a magnificent ornament to a 

 garden, and, according to their location, may be kept 3 and 

 4 feet wide. A very little covering in winter will keep 

 the foliage, of the right sort, in very good order. 



In the large squares, plainly sodded, that are in the 

 gardens of the Louvre and the Tuileries, at Paris, there 

 is no other ornament but such borders of broad-leaved 

 Ivy, established at 3 to 4 feet from the walks, and left 

 running about 2 to 3 feet wide ; and they make, with the 

 dark green or the lighter turf, a most striking show. 



