90 Garde7is and Grounds at Wilford Hall. 



garden, would in a manner so connect our gardens with our 

 houses, as to make them, what all, I believe, would wish 

 them to be, a pleasurable part of them. The want of colour, 

 so necessary to a cheerfulness of scene, would, at those sea- 

 sons when flowers have ceased to bloom, be compensated for 

 by the lights which would be constantly falling upon and play- 

 ing about the architectural ornaments ; and that courting of 

 sunshine, of which I have before made mention, would be 

 generally gained. 



{To he continued.) 



Art. VII. Plan of the Gardens and Grounds at Wilford 

 Hall, Nottinghamshire. By Mr. William Smith. 



Sir, 



As a sharer of those pleasures which we find in reading 

 your valuable Magazine, I humbly suggest to you a proposal, 

 which, in my opinion, would be a source of additional inte- 

 rest ; that is, to call upon your readers who have the charge 

 of gentlemen's gardens and pleasure-grounds, to forward to 

 you plans of their flower-gardens, shrubberies, fruit-gardens, 

 or any other spot connected therewith which is kept in high 

 order. The kitchen and nursery grounds may be omitted ; 

 but any particular object or practice in the former depart- 

 ments, might accompany the plans. 



This, I am willing to believe, would be as readily as it may 

 be easily complied with ; and the result would be, the leading 

 our ideas from our own firesides, and presenting us with dis- 

 tant scenes and excellencies, which, by comparison, would 

 both amuse and improve us. To make a beginning in this 

 new trait, I herewith transmit a plan of the gardens and 

 grounds of which I have at present the charge, (jig. 44.) 



The dressed grounds contain, exclusively of a piece of park- 

 scenery in the middle, nine acres in the best style; the flower- 

 garden is ornamented by two handsome cedars of Lebanon, 

 measuring 60 ft. in height, and having boles 7 ft. in circum- 

 ference, at the base ; also a beautiful tulip tree, Liriodendron 

 tulipi^eva., 45 ft. high, and 5 ft. in circumference ; with many 

 red cedars, and arbor- vitaes of the same height. The flower- 

 beds are well stocked with the best plants, herbaceous, bulbous, 

 and American. The trees in the fruit-garden have only been 

 planted four years, are trained in the fan manner, and are 

 doing well. The green-house contains a good collection of 

 geraniums, &c., with a few camellias and orange trees. 



Jan. 12. 1828. Wm. Smith. 



