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THE VILLA GARDENER. 



wall and a boundary, the present garden would have made an interesting 

 addition to the pleasure-grounds. I had proposed to unite this part of the 

 grounds to the woods of the adjoining hill to the eastward, by pulling down a 

 side wall, and bj' thinning out, and varying the outline at the margin of the 

 wood, and facing it with ornamental trees and shrubs, with a winding walk 

 leading to the rustic bridge (A), from the west side of which the walk might 

 have been led by an easy curve to another bridge (i), where it would reunite 

 with the pleasure-grounds." Various conveniences, including a subterraneous 

 passage, are indicated on the plan from Ic to n. The approach-road (o) is 

 JO ft. wide, and the walks (j)) are 4 ft. wide. The flower- borders are at q, 

 the stables, &c., at r, and there is a vista at s, showing the ruins of a Roman 

 station. 



.'343. Planting. — The ornamental ti-ees used in planting this place were the 

 scarlet maple, the Noi-way maple, the scarlet horse-chestnut, the yellow horse- 

 chestnut, or buckeye, the cut-leaved alder, the sweet chestnut, the purple 

 beech, the common beech, the flowering ash, the larch, the Weymouth pine, 

 the Cembra pine, and some other ornamental kinds ; various kinds of poplar, 

 the scarlet oak, the evergreen oak, and the American lime-tree. The shrubs 

 and low trees were laurels, Portugal laurels, hollies, laurustinus, box, arbor 

 vitae, juniper, red cedar, aucuba, alaternus, arbutus, sweet bay, laburnum, 

 lilacs, spindle-tree, dogwood, guelder rose, garden syringa, bird cherry, snow- 

 berry, Irish yew, and various kinds of rhododendrons, kalmias, and azaleas. 

 Near the Burn were planted two weeping willows, a weeping elm, and a 

 weeping ash. It is remarkable that no kind of Crataegus is mentioned in this 

 list, though the situation appears remarkably well adapted for plants of that 

 genus. 



Design XXI. — Descriptive notice of Bedford Lodge, the villa of Her 

 Grace the Duchess Dowager of Bedford, at Campden Hill, near London. 



