and managing FlcMer-Gardens. 



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monious colours, and a beautifully playful variety of figure : 

 to effect this, it appears to me that though, as to figure, each 

 bed should be complete in itself; yet, both as to figure and 

 to colour, each should bear a proper relation and subserviency 

 to the whole. Botanical arrangements, rosaries, &c., I admire 

 as much as any one, in their place ; that is, provided we are 

 not compelled to look upon them, and pass through them, at 

 all times of the year : but when masses of flowers of fleeting 

 character are made to form outlines and principal features in 

 the scener}'^, I think a gaudy mass for a few weeks a sorry 

 compensation for lumpish forms and months of barrenness. 



It will be seen that the garden here described is fitted to a 

 seat of considerable pretensions. The parterre style is, how- 

 ever, applicable to a place of almost any size, and, perhaps, 

 to any circumstances, except where a connection with the 

 buildings would impose a peculiar character on the parterre. 



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