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of the shrubs and plants chosen, which may vary from an average of Is. to 3s. 

 each. Taking them at the first sum, and estimating tlie total number at 

 about 506, the amount will be 251. 6s, ; but the same number of plants might 

 be chosen from the nurserymen's priced lists, of such prices as would bring 

 the amount above lOOL, or under 10/. In the latter case, however, there 

 would only be the more common kinds; and both the roses and the herba- 

 ceous plants would be purchased at so much per score, or per hundred. On 

 the whole, the expense of laying out and stocking a garden of this sort would 

 be much the same as if it had been planted with fruit-trees ; but it has a great 

 advantage over a fruit-garden, in admitting of being kept both with less 

 labour and less skill. Supposing a commercial gardener employed to look 

 after it, he might be required for two hours a day during June, July, and 

 August ; two hours, for three days in the week, during May and September ; 

 and two hours per week during the remainder of the year. 



147. The produce woidd consist entirely of flowers, and the enjoyment in 

 looking after them. The roses would demand a lady's attention during the 

 whole summer. Every day some roses will have faded, and will require to 

 be cut off; and every evening, except when it rains, the syringe, or the bar- 

 row-engine, should be brought into use. To keep down the insects will also 

 require constant vigilance. 



Design VII. To lay out and plant a suburban garden, where the object is 

 . chief 1/ to make a picturesque display of ornamental trees and shrubs, with a 

 few flowers. 



148. General arrangement. — For this example, we shall take a garden 

 which was laid out and planted from a design of ours. The situation is a 

 piece of flat ground, on the border of a common, within two miles of St. 

 Paul's, London : it contains, altogether, about a quarter of an acre ; and the 

 soil is a strong loam. The house forms part of a row ; and, from a stable, 

 chaise-house, and poultry-house being placed alongside of the dwelling, the 

 frontage, and, consequently, the width of the back garden, is upwards of 

 60 ft. There being no common sewer, or general system of drainage, in the 

 neighbourhood, the most defective part of this residence is the dampness of 

 the surface of the ground in wet weather. The drains of the walks, however, 

 are conducted to a well at the further extremity of the garden ; whence the 

 water, after heavy rains, may be pumped up to a gutter, which is conducted 

 along the surface of the common. The situation, though flat, is not without 

 some distant prospect, that is intended to be seen from the floor of the living- 

 room (which is about 5 ft. higher than the surface of the garden), broken and 

 varied by the trees which are to be planted. The shrubs will be, for the most 

 part, below the eye ; and the finer flowers are intcHded to be chiefly confined 

 to the front garden ; in which, in order to form a greater contrast with the 

 back garden, it is only intended to have climbers against the house and the 

 side walls. The portion of the front garden before the coach-house and 

 stable is separated from that before the house by a wall ; thus giving a yard 

 for the poultry, and room for cleaning the horse, chaise, &c. The only trees 

 in the front garden are a row of thorns of six different kinds, placed close by 

 this partition wall, in order to hide the view of the poultry and chaise-yard 

 from the parlour window. 



149. The house, the boundary fences, the walks, and the outdoor buildings, 

 were designed and carried into execution before our advice was asked, and 



