534 Summari/ Piexo of' the Progress of Gardening, 



various correspondents, and the publication of the verj' original 

 work of Kiillar, mentioned under our Literary Notices, as par- 

 ticularly adapted to gardeners, will contribute to the same result. 

 Lnndscape-Gardening and Garden Architecture. — We have 

 been gratified by having observed, in the course of the year a 

 garden in which, without any knowledge of what had been 

 written in this Magazine on the subject of the Gardenesque, a 

 very perfect example is exhibited of this style of planting and 

 management. We allude to the grounds of the Rev. T. Wil- 

 liams of Hendon Rector}', in which there is a portion of shrub- 

 bery which forms a perfect examj)le of this manner. Wiiile the 

 whole of this shrubbery resembles, at a distance, other continuous 

 masses of shrubs ; yet, as we approach it, we discover that every 

 individual shrub is isolated, and is at several inches' distance, 

 according to its height, from those which surround it. Regarding 

 these shrubs more closel}', we find that each has, by pruning and 

 tying in, or stretching out, its branches formed into a regular 

 s^'mmetrical head ; still maintaining the natural shape of the 

 shrub or tree, whether conical, globular, fastigiate, or spreading. 

 In consequence of the light and air admitted all round the plants 

 so treated, their sides are covered with fine foliage, and, in the 

 proper seasons, with blossoms and fruit. The taller-growing 

 shrubs are placed in the middle in the usual manner, and the 

 lower growing kinds at the margin ; and, while there is a judicious 

 composition of evergreens and deciduous kinds, in order to pro- 

 duce effect in winter as well as in summer, not a single herbaceous 

 plant is introduced. A nearer approach to our beau ideal of a 

 gardenesque shrubbery we never expect to meet with ; and what 

 enhances the interest is, that only the more rare and valuable 

 species are admitted. It is true that this mode of culture is much 

 more expensive than the picturesque manner in which shrubs 

 are planted at irregular distances, and allowed to grow up 

 touching each other in groups or tufts, without much pruning ; 

 but, while the picturesque manner has its own beauties, and is best 

 adapted for shrubberies on an extensive scale, where not many 

 species are employed, the gardenesque manner is better adapted 

 for small gardens, where there is only room for one plant of a 

 species or variety, or where the species and varieties employed 

 are rare and valuable. The gardenesque manner (widiout much 

 pruning or tying) is obviously the only mode adapted for public 

 institutions ; in which every tree and shrub ought to have suf- 

 ficient room to show its natural shape, and ought on no account 

 to have that shape and its general effect neutralised by being 

 surrounded by a common monotonising mixture, such as we find 

 in almost all public gardens, even where rare plants are intro- 

 duced. It is gratifying to find that there is an increase in the im- 

 provements going forward in the landscape department through- 



