150 Selection of Plants for forming 



stance of character and disposition from the plain on the 

 other side of the castle; and all this various country is within 

 a small distance of the capital, but free from any appearance 

 of neighbourhood to a city. 



The different characters of elegance and grandeur which 

 distinguish it meet on the banks of the river, which animates 

 and reflects all their beauties. The- hills shelve into it on 

 one hand, it fertilises the plain on the other ; and, whilst it is 

 winding among shocks of corn, or watering a mead, the 

 towers of the castle, the groves in both the parks, and the 

 heights of the forest, are in view. Little islands frequently 

 divide the stream; and if one or two of these were purchased, 

 at some distance above and below Windsor, a few trees and 

 airy buildings would render them refreshing retreats on a 

 summer's day, and delightful objects of excursion on the 

 water. They would also extend the idea of domain far 

 beyond its present bounds, and the royalty would then 

 comprehend the means of eveiy enjoyment which the country 

 can afford, whether sought in the pursuits of activity or the 

 relaxation of indolence, the quiet of private life or the splen- 

 dour of majesty. 



Art. VI. A Selection of Platits, for forming, in the smallest Space, 

 a Representative System of the ivhole Vegetable Kingdom ; tcitk 

 a View to facilitate the Acquisition of the most comprehensive 

 Knoxdedge of Systematic, Physiological, and Practical Botany, 

 ivith the least Degree of Study, and in the shortest Period of Time. 

 By the Conductor. 



We have long had it in view to show how, in any garden, 

 a maximum of botanical instruction, interest, and enjoyment, 

 may be exhibited in a minimum of space. We have hinted 

 at the subject in several passages in preceding volumes (Vols. I. 

 p. 461. II. p. 300. and p. 309, &c.) which the reader is requested 

 to peruse ; and we are now enabled to carry our ideas into 

 effect, in consequence of the publication of Lindley's Intro- 

 duction to the Natural System of Botany, of our own Horttis 

 Britannicus, and of Parts I. and II. of our Illustrations of 

 Landscape- Gardening. * 



* The first and second parts of this work contain the elements of all 

 that are to follow; and more especially as it relates to the subject before 

 us, viz. dias;rams for the formation of arborctums in lines along the margins 

 of walks, and in circles on lawn ; and for Jiissicuean herbaceous grounds 

 in circles. These parts also contain a plate showing the application of 

 both systems of diagrams to the laying out of a residence of ten acres. We 



