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ornaments on your pork-pie. Then purchase or 

 provide — for the spring, Bulbs by the'Back ; for 

 the summer, Pelargoniums by the million; for the^ 

 winter, baby Evergreens and infant Conifers — 

 brought prematurely from the nursery into public 

 life, Hke too many of our precocious children — 

 by the waggon-load ; introducing among the latter, 

 narrow little walks of pounded cockle-shells, bro- 

 ken glass, gypsum, brick-dust, sheep's trotters, 

 etc., etc. 



I am well aware that the geometrical system, 

 especially when it is combined with terraces, stair- 

 cases, balustrades, and edgings of stones, is very 

 effective and appropriate around our palaces, cas- 

 tles, and other stately homes. For these it forms 

 a beautiful floor and fringe. It prevents too sud- 

 den a transition from architecture to horticulture.* 

 With the pleasure-grounds around opening upon 

 the park, and with the general landscape in the 

 distance beyond, the amalgamation of art and 

 nature is excellent. Nor do I deny for a moment 

 that in all gardens, if introduced in modest and 



* "His" (Sir C. Barry's) " idea was, that the definite artificial 

 lines of a building should not be contrasted, but harmonized, with the 

 free and careless grace of natural beauty. This could only be effected 

 by a scheme of architectural gardens, graduated, as it were, from 

 regular formality in the immediate neighborhood of the building 

 itself, through shrubberies and plantations, less and less artificial, till 

 they seemed to melt away in the unstudied simplicity of the park or 

 wood without." — Memoir of Sir C. Barry, by his Son, p. 113. 



