DESIGNS FOR ORNAMENTAL GROUNDS. 41 



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 center piece, there is a large flower bed for 

 Scarlet Geraniums, Feverfew, etc., surrounded by a bor- 

 der of Irish Ivy, kept in line, so as not to exceed twelve 

 to eighteen inches in width. 



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

 well kept in order, are a magnificent ornament to a gar- 

 den, and, according to their location, may be kept three 

 and four 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 gar- 

 dens of the Louvre and the Tuileries, at Paris, there is 

 no other ornament but such borders of broad-leaved Ivy, 

 established at three to four feet from the walks, and left 

 running about two to three feet wide ; and they make, 

 with the dark green against the lighter turf, a most 

 agreeable contrast. 



