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case is altered ; not so much indeed, but that still the 

 kitchen garden should be adorned with a sprinkling 

 of the more ordinary decorations, to skirt the quar- 

 ters, chiefly those of the^most powerful sweet scents, 

 as roses, sweet-briars, and honey-suckles, wall-flowers, 

 stocks, pinks, minionet, &c. in order to counteract the 

 coarser effluvia of vegetables, or of dead leaves, 

 which, however, should not be suffered to annoy, by 

 laying on the ground. 



Thejlorver garden (properly so called) should be 

 rather small than large ; and if a separate portion 

 of ground be appropriated for this, only the choicest 

 gifts of Flora should be introduced, and no trouble 

 spared to cultivate them in the best manner. The 

 beds of this garden should be narrow, and conse- 

 quently the walks numerous ; and not more than one 

 half, or two thirds the width of the beds, except one 

 principal walk all round, which may be a little wider. 

 The gravel (or whatever the walks are made of) 

 should lie about four inches below the edge. The 

 beds for tulips, hyacinths, anemonies, ranunculuses, 

 &c. may be three and a hal or four feet wide, and 

 those for single flowers the same, or only two and a 

 half feet wide in the borders ; which was the most 

 usual breadth in the old flower gardens. Let the 

 beds lie rather rounded in the middle, but the walks 

 flat, being so narrow. 



Figured parterres have got out of fashion, as a 

 taste for open and extensive gardening has prevailed ; 

 but when the beds are not too fanciful, but regular 

 in their shapes, and chiefly at right angles, (after the 

 Chinese manner) an assemblage of all sorts of flow- 

 ers, in a fancy spot of about sixty feet square, is a de- 

 lightful home oource of pleasure, worthy of pur- 

 suit. There should be neat edgings of box to these 

 beds, or rather of neat inch boards, painted lead 

 colour, to keep up the mould. Be sure to keep the 



