44 THE FLOWER (?ARDEN. 



Petersburgli, which is described as a semicircular 

 conservatory attached to the hall of the palace, 

 wherein " the walks wander amidst flowery hedges, 

 and fruit-bearing shrubs, winding over little hills," 

 in fact a complete garden, artificially heated, and 

 adorned with the usual embellishments of busts and 

 vases. When this mighty man in his travels halted, 

 if only for a day, his travelling pavilion was erected, 

 and surrounded by a garden a VAnglaise ! " com- 

 posed of trees and shrubs, and divided ly gravel 

 walks, and ornamented with seats and statues, all 

 carried for ivard with the cavalcade /" We ought in 

 fairness to our readers to add that Sir John Carr, 

 notorious by another less honourable prsenomen, is 

 the authority for this ; though, indeed, his statement 

 is authenticated by Mr. Loudon (Encyc. Grard. 

 sect. 842). We have heard of the effect of length 

 being given to an avenue by planting the more dis- 

 tant trees nearer and nearer together ; but among 

 gardening crochets we have never yet seen a 

 children's garden as we think it might be made 

 beds, seats, arbours, moss-house, all in miniature, 

 with dwarf shrubs and fairy roses, and other flowers 

 of only the smallest kind ; or it might be laid out on 

 turf, to suit the intellectual spirit of the age, like a 

 map of the two hemispheres. 



It is time that we pass to that portion of our sub- 

 ject which is generally considered under the peculiar 

 patronage of the ladies. Evelyn, a name never to 

 be mentioned by gardeners without reverence, says 

 somewhere, in describing an English place which he 



