4? 6 THE GREEN-HOUSE. [JULY 



The great faults in this case are the shutting out of the prospect, 

 and the complete exposure of all the walks, as though they were the 

 most important features of the garden. The first of these is to be 

 rectified by cleaning away the clumps near the piece of water, the 

 second by destroying the centre walk, and the third by fringing the 

 broad turf-plat so obtained with clumps for flowering shrubs. 



In the new arrangement a centre will be obtained upon a line from 

 the fountain, at right angles with the building ; and to give a balance 

 to the basis of operations, a large projecting mass of close-clipped 

 evergreen was introduced, to correspond with the shape of the draw- 

 ing-room bow, which also served to aid in concealing the offices and 

 yard on the right side of the house, and the yard itself was contract- 

 ed, that it might be effectually planted out on both sides from the 

 garden. The walks in the " improved plan" are judiciously altered. 

 The house itself, and the laundry, are to be covered with clematis, 

 honeysuckles, and wistaria. 



The apparent breadth of the garden, indeed its general extent, 

 being so much increased, the four beds e, e, e, e, are introduced, and 

 it is admissible to fill these with flowering plants. A juniper will have 

 a satisfactory effect in the centre of each. The plans almost explain 

 themselves. 



THE GREEN-HOUSE. 



Orange, lemon, citron, and shaddock-trees, on which there are now 

 set a superabundance of young fruit, should have them thinned to a 

 reasonable number on each, in proportion to its strength ; after which 

 they may be divested of all flowers subsequently produced, especially 

 when wanted for domestic purposes, such as to make orange-flower 

 water, &c. 



It would be of considerable utility to those trees to have the earth 

 in the top of the tubs or pots now taken out, for two or three inches 

 deep, and replaced with fresh compost ; this would greatly encourage 

 their autumn growth. 



PROPAGATING THE PLANTS. 



Still continue to propagate the various kinds of green-house plants 

 which you wish to increase, by cuttings, layers, suckers, &c., as di- 

 rected in the preceding months ; most kinds will yet succeed by cut- 

 tings of the present year's wood if carefully planted, duly shaded, 

 and moderately watered ; such as xeranthemums, salivias, geraniums, 

 pelargoniums, and erodiums, hermannias, phlomises, ericas, *cinera- 

 rias, camellia japonica and acuba japonica, cotyledon orbiculata, ono- 

 nis natrix, polygala bracteolata, lavendulas, anthyllises, proteas, &c. 

 &c. These kinds, with many others, will now take freely, in suit- 

 able earth, without the assistance of a hot- bed. Let the cuttings be 

 taken from healthy plants ; they should be from four to eight inches 



