2o8 Landscape Gardening 



may possess recommendations. It was made for James Bar- 

 ratt, Esq., of Lymm Hall, near Warrington, England. 



Lymm Hall is an ancient Elizabethan edifice partially sur- 

 rounded by an old moat with rising ground in the pleasure 

 garden and field on the south side. A little to the eastward of 

 the south front a dense mass of hollies and other evergreens 

 screens off the kitchen garden, and it is on the south side of 

 this plantation, attached to the kitchen garden, that the 

 flower garden now under notice has been nade. It is con- 

 nected with the lawn by a grass path through the screen of 

 evergreens; and this grass path (13) passes up the middle of 

 the flower garden, being terminated by a summerhouse (i) 

 which is covered with clinching roses. The rest of the walks 

 are of gravel and have box edgings, differing in this respect 

 from any that I have yet described. 



At 2 there are garden seats canopied and enclosed with 

 ivy, which is grown on a wooden trellis. In the borders (3) , 

 which are devoted to roses, there are at regular intervals 

 alternate specimens of standard and climbing roses, the latter 

 being represented by the larger dots, and being trained to 

 poles, and to chains hanging between these, in the form of 

 festoons. In the circles (4) are specimens of a very dwarf 

 and compact variety of the common juniper, while fuchsias 

 occupy the other circles, marked 5. To the beds (6) were 

 assigned different varieties of verbena, with one sort in each ; 

 but they could of course be filled with other kinds of plants 

 that are sufficiently dwarf. The whole of the beds (7) ,or two- 

 thirds of them, were also intended for mixed flowers, though 

 they could all, if desired, be retained for summer flowers, 

 with one sort to a bed. The border (S) is for violets and 

 other spring-flowering plants, and the opposite border (13) 

 for lilies of the valley and such things as prefer more shade. 

 There is a border strewn with rocks at 10, for alpine plants, 



