144 THE VILLA GARDENER. 



no plants are trained, the occupier preferring to be without them. The con- 

 servatory ig) is planted with different varieties of Camellia, and the piers 

 witli Eriohotrya japonica, Lonicera flexuosa and japonica, Wistaria sinensis, 

 Passiflora cserulea, and vines : the latter are the royal muscadine, the muscat 

 of Zante, muscat of Alexandria, Money's West's St. Peter's, and the black 

 Hamburg. These vines are ti-ained round the inside of the glass dome, and 

 produce a good crop yearly. The door shown in the back part of the veranda 

 has the panes of looking-glass; and, before the camellias grew large, it 

 reflected them, as seen from the front garden, and from the road, in a very 

 striking manner. 



215. Grass-ploi in the fro7it garden. — We have now completed the planting 

 of the front gardens ; and all that remains is, to state that the surface of the 

 soil among these plants, composing much the larger half of both gardens, was 

 next sown down with grass seeds, in order to be kept in turf; the cropping of 

 the grass among the stems of the shrubs being done by hedge-shears. As a 

 finish to the turfed part of the gardens, and also as a definitive line of demar- 

 cation between it and the dug part, the dwarf pedestals and vases at i^ Sf were 

 introduced. These vases also harmonise with the vases which form the 

 crowning termination to the pillars of the veranda. 



216. The planting common to the hack gardens of both houses will not 

 require many details. In each of the two small angles between the back 

 entrance and the shed, a walnut tree is planted, which, having been 20 ft. 

 high in 1823, soon overshadowed, not only the entrance, but even the roof of 

 the shed. There are also common ivy, Virginian creeper, a China rose, and 

 Zycium barbarum planted in these angles, from which they are trained over 

 the shed and the boundary wall, mantling over and greatly enriching botli 

 from the lane. The other trees immediately within the eastern boundary wall 

 are pears, a golden-pippin apple, and a mulberry. The pears are the Chau- 

 montelle, glout morceau, Duchesse d'Angouleme, Marie-Louise, and beurre 

 Spence. On the west side of the north shed a giant ivy and a vine are 

 trained; and on the south side of the south shed Lonicera japonica and 

 Cydonia japonica. The fragrance of Lonicera japonica (the Lonicera 

 flexuosa of most nurseries) is so great, when in flower, that, when coming 

 home from London late in the evenings, when the wind has been in the west, 

 we have felt its sweetness at the distance of nearly a quarter of a mile. The 

 wall of the north garden which faces the south is planted with peaches and 

 nectarines, and the east wall with apricots. Down the centre of the spaces 

 enclosed by the trellises e e, a row of standard apple-trees was planted, 

 cliiefly the Hawthornden and other early-bearing sorts, as it was intended to 

 take them away as soon as they produced too much shade on the ground 

 below. The north side of the party wall of the south garden was planted 

 with cherries and plums, and with standard pear-trees, at regular distances, 

 so as to produce shade in the summer time on the walk, and to admit the 

 sun's rays during winter. Ivy, honeysuckle of different sorts, and climbing 

 roses, were subsequently planted against this wall ; but the ivy has now taken 

 entire possession of it, and forms a mantling covering to the coping from one end 

 of it to another. The eastern boundai'y v{ki\\ of the south garden is planted with 

 Chimonanthus fragrans. Magnolia Soulangea?2a, /asminum revoliitum, and 

 Rosa Boursaiilti, and other roses. In the centre is a plant of ivy, which is 

 trained with a single stem as high as the coping, on the top of which, under a 



