July 4, 1872] 



NATURE 



" In all my designs, I have tried to suggest to the mind 

 that it must be so ; and even when my arrangements are 

 most artificial — as when a walk doubles upon itself — it 

 looks that the arrangement has been made because no 



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other plan was really practicable ; and when this idea is 

 carried out, the garden looks natural. 



'_' Throughout my garden my vegetables, flowers, and 

 fruit-trees are blended together in one harmonious whole : 



Fig. 2.— Shrew Moi'5k 



Fig. 3.— The GoLonNCH 



Fig. 4. — HarviIst Mouse 



a plot of carrots and a row of flowering peas are beautiful fruit-trees alternate with rosaries, ferneries, alpineries, and 

 objects in themselves, and hence plots of vegetables and | flower-beds. . . . 



"A long straight line is, in aproperplace, very pleasing, I with the Park palings. This walk is overarched, at inter- 

 anJ my pear-tree walk is about 150 yards long, parallel | vals, with climbing roses ; and planted on one side with 



Fic. 6. — Hymenophyllum Demissu.m 



Fig. 7.— Adiantum Capillus-Veneris 



Fig. S.—Hymenophyllum Tundridgense 



pyramid pear-trees. The general effect is in the highest 

 degree charming, when we come upon it from paths of 

 curved lines, and view the chequered shade 'upon the 

 ath. 



" Again, my fern glade is straight, and has a straight 

 grass walk by its side. The nut bushes, on one side, are 

 parallel with the stream ; and the grass walk and rows of 

 apple-trees, on the other side, are also straight. In this 



