26 Laying out and planting ^urying-G rounds. 



Scowls o'er the darken'd landskip snow, or shower, 

 If chance the radiant sun, with farewell sweet. 

 Extend his evening beam, the fields revive. 

 The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds 

 Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings." 



Flora begins to delight the eye with the colours displayed in 

 the winter aconite, Christmas rose, snowdrop, some early 

 blooming crocus ; and every succeeding fine day produces 

 more beauties to the end ot" the month ; and further, to the 

 end of March, the winter garden is one glow of the most 

 enchanting brilliancy. So ends my feeble description of a 

 winter garden. 



Every thing is more enjoyed and appreciated by contra- 

 rieties : for when I walk through the fields in November, 

 the leaves fall, or are fallen; the gravel walks in my winter 

 garden are as clean as a carpet, there being no deciduous 

 trees to strew the ground with their falling leaves. In every 

 succeeding month, till April, the trees and hedges are leaf- 

 less, and no flowers to be seen : enter the winter garden, you 

 are struck with something like a fairy scene ; and the most 

 unconcerned observer cannot help admiring the beauties of 

 nature, so various, so charming, brought together into so 

 small a spot by the art of the floriculturist. 



Often, in October and November, there are sharp fi'osts for 

 a night or two. I protect the chrysanthemums on the wall 

 by hanging mats on iron hooks, about 4 in. from the wall. 

 The same expedient I likewise use to protect the peaches, &c., 

 when in bloom. Those in the borders I protect by hanging, 

 on the top of each stick to which they are tied, conical paste- 

 board caps. With this smiill trouble of protection, I insure 

 a fine bloom ; when those in the gardens of my neighbours, 

 for want of such attention, are generally defaced by the frosts. 



T. R. RiVERE. 



Hampden Cottage, Saxvbridge'wort//, 

 Heitfordshire, Jan. 2. 1829. 



Art. VIII. On the laying out and planting of Burying-Groands. 

 By John H. Moggkidge, Esq. 



Sir, 

 I WAS much pleased with the introduction of the subject of 

 burying-grounds in the last (December) Number of your 

 highly interesting Magazine, and with the promise of a fuller 

 notice of it on some future occasion. It is a subject which I 

 hope you will resume in your next Number ; for 1 know of no 

 one better qualified to originate the long wanted reform in 



