Leeds Zoological and Botanical Garden. S^l 



system of botany. The herbaceous plants will be much more 

 sheltered by the trees ; and all the front trees, to exemplify the 

 orders, will have a greater space to extend their foliage than 

 they generally have when arranged at equal distances from the 

 walks ; and the breaking of the regular curved line, I am per- 

 suaded, will add much to the picturesque effect of the garden, 

 from the terrace and other places of view. I have likewise 

 endeavoured to combine the pictorial with the scientific arrange- 

 ment; for all herbaceous plants whose developement is quinary 

 are arranged in groups of five beds ; if quaternary, in groups 

 of four beds; if ternary, in groups of three beds; which 

 arrangement may be well illustrated in the laying out of 

 gardens. 



In the zoological arrangement, I have merely fixed the situa- 

 tions of some of the houses for animals, birds, &c. ; for, not 

 knowing the collection the Society may procure, I thought it 

 of no use giving any elevations. I have fixed the sites for many 

 of the houses in the arboretum, chiefly where the orders contain 

 climbing plants, which houses, when partially overgrown, would 

 have a more natural and picturesque effect, than if they were 

 placed on the open lawn ; and I would, as much as possible, 

 endeavour to bring the geographical range of plants and animals 

 together, wherever it could be effected. If your collection should, 

 in a few years, become extensive, a more scientific arrangement 

 of the orders might be adopted. Movable cages for birds and 

 small animals, poles for monkeys, &c., might be placed on the 

 lawn in the summer season. 



The preceding remarks being much longer than I intended, 

 I will not trouble you further than to refer you to a paragraph 

 in the Leeds Mercury for Jan. 1833, in which some of my views 

 on botanic gardens were stated, but shall now proceed to an 

 explanation of the plans. 



References to Plan Jig. 35., Arrangement of the Arboretum. 



PoLYPE'TALiE. 



AUmminoscB. 7, Grossulacese. 



1, i?anunculace£e, the shrubby plants ^' ff>[^(^>'^(l<^^- 



of the order climbin- up a circular ^> ' "\^eae ; a building for European 

 rustic building for small European ^""^ ^^"'^ American animals, 

 animals. 



2, Beds for herbaceous i?anuncu- Epigi/ndsce. 

 laceae. 



3, MagnoUacets. 10, Beds for the orders Onagraceae, 



4, AnondcecB. Circeae, Halorageae \JC'ucurbitaceae, 



5, Beds for herbaceous Umbelliferas. and Loasucecs. 



6, Araliaceae ; a rustic building for the il, Philadelphiiceae. 

 larger European animals, covered 12, i/amamelaceae. 

 with ivy. 1 3, 6'ornaceae. 



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