32 PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 



This plan is entirely in the geometric style, or with 

 straight walks exclusively, as we think that, considering 

 everything, this arrangement is the most suitable for 

 small lots. 



What, indeed, is the best use to which to put so little 

 room ? Fruit trees, vegetables, and large pieces of lawn 

 are not what are here required ; fruit and vegetables the 

 proprietor may procure at the market cheaper than he 

 could raise them ; lawns, or grass plots, would not be ac- 

 cessible for any amusement or exercise in damp or rainy 

 weather. Therefore I consider well-made walks, that may 

 be dry in the afternoon of a rainy day, much more needed 

 for the promenade of persons, who, having been busy all 

 day, require some exercise and fresh air in the evening. 

 Fine shrubbery, flower-beds, and shade are also required. 



In a planting of the right sort, it requires not much 

 depth to form good belts to protect the place against the 

 cold winds, or sometimes against cool neighbors. 



A large display of flowers does not require a very large 

 space of ground, and if plenty of flowers should be 

 wanted, as is generally the case, their quantity may be in- 

 creased by a judicious selection of flowering shrubbery. 



For a more sheltered, shady walk, I should, in such a 

 place, suggest a well-built arbor, covered on the top with 

 out-door grape-vines, and on the side towards the house 

 with fine flowering climbers, or those that have good and 

 durable foliage, such as Climbing Eoses and Honeysuckles, 

 the Clematis, Akebia, Viginia Creeper, Bittersweet (or 

 Celastrus scandens), Chinese Wistaria, etc., as perma- 

 nent plants, which may be trained so as to cover the 

 whole front ; and then, for variety, of a dwarf er habit and 

 covering the lower parts, the Madeira Vine, Canary-bird 

 Plant, and Adlumia, or Allegheny Vine. Some of the 

 new CucurMtacece, the broad-leaved Periwinkle, Ivies, 

 and a number of other sorts may be recommended. 



I intend, in progressing with the explanation of the 



