400 General Results of a Gardening Tour : — 



church Bury is also nearly perfect, and eminently beautiful; 

 but the flower-beds contain only a poor collection. The pro- 

 prietor, the Rev. Matthew Wise, is the descendant and inhe- 

 ritor of the fortune of Mr. Wise, the gardener to Queen Anne, 

 and ought to patronise botany as well as landscape-gardening. 

 The villa of Wm. Bow, Esq., at Lower Broughton, and that 

 of the Rev. J. Clowes of Broughton Old Hall, are both highly 

 kept, and of the very highest floral and botanical interest. 



The faults of the villa residences which we have seen are, to 

 a certain extent, those of the mansion residences; and there are 

 other faults, both in the original laying out and in the keeping 

 and management, which are also common to both. We shall 

 pass over the ridiculous twisting and turning of walks, without 

 real or apparent reason, which is so frequently met with, and 

 rather dwell on the bad shapes and improper places of groups 

 of shrubs and flowers on lawns. In several parts of this Maga- 

 zine we have laid down the fundamental principles which ought 

 to guide the placing of groups, viz. to arrange them so as to ren- 

 der them cooperating parts, with those which surround them, in 

 the formation of one whole. It is not very easy to convey this 

 principle to a mind that has not been a good deal cultivated in 

 respect to the beauty of lines and forms ; or to a person who 

 has not had some practice in sketching landscape. All that can 

 be done with grown-up gardeners is, to lay down a few rules 

 derived from the above fundamental principle ; and all that 

 can be hoped from the adoption of these rules is, the avoid- 

 ing of glaring errors. The first rule, then, is, that no group 

 ought to be so placed as to admit of its being moved without 

 deranging other groups, or the adjoining walks or objects. In 

 other words, every group ought to fit in to the precise situ- 

 ation where it is placed, without admitting of its being moved 

 to the right or left, backwards or forwards, without deranging 

 the effect of the whole of which it forms a part. To fit any 

 given situation, its outline must coincide more or less with some 

 other outline {_fig.l9..); and not diverge or converge with that 

 outline (j%. 73.) at random, or have no relation to it at all. 



A second rule is, that where the whole, that is, the lawn or 

 area to be laid out, is of an irregular shape, regular figures 

 as groups should be very sparingly introduced. What can be 

 more disagreeable than a lawn sprinkled over with circles, 

 ovals, hearts, diamonds, &c., without any connection among 

 themselves, or with the objects that surround them ? A third 

 rule is, that all figures should be long and narrow rather than 

 round and lumpish, as producing most effect with least ground. 

 A fourth rule is, that a group, or even a tree, should seldom 

 or never be placed in the centre of any lai-ge place or scene 



