214 Plan for a Kitchen^ Fruit, and Floifoer Garden, 



work to attract attention ; it stands unrivalled with its hundred 

 accompaniments of wild splendour, which cannot but be 

 materially deteriorated by any contrivance to show it off to 

 advantage. 



I shall conclude these remarks by stating that the gardens 

 of the Earl Brownlow at Bolton, in Lincolnshire, and those 

 of the Earl of Plymouth at Hewell, in Worcestershire, are 

 the best specimens I have seen of the above style. Lady 

 Farnborough has carried French gardening to a great height 

 at Bromley Hill, in Kent. Mr. Wells has done more at Red 

 Leaf, in Kent, in English gardening, than any one has ever 

 attempted : both he and Lady Farnborough have made, with 

 consummate skill, real landscapes, such as would not disgrace 

 the pencil of Gaspar Poussin. Lady Grenville, beautiful as 

 are the gardens at Dropmore, has fallen too much into the 

 rustic and basketwork, and therefore perishable, ornament ; 

 and the feelings excited in a promenade through Her Lady- 

 ship's tasteful shrubberies are those of regret at so much use- 

 less expenditure, at so great a distribution of a material which 

 a very few of our winters must destroy. 



Yours, &c. 

 Woodstock, April 16. 1828. An Amateur. 



Art. VIII. Plan for a Kitchen, Fruit, and Flo*mer Garden, 

 moith the necessary Buildings applicable to each. By Juvenis 

 Olitor. 



Sir, 



Some of your readers being desirous of seeing plans of 

 gardens occasionally introduced in your periodical, I am 

 induced to hand you the annexed, which, though not the idea 

 of a genius, nor the work of a perfect draughtsman, yet, as it 

 combines many of the requisites of a complete gardening 

 establishment, it may not be unworthy of your notice. Should 

 it appear to deserve this, I would be encouraged to send you 

 the details of the various structures composing this design ; 

 as houses, pits, stoves, &c., with elevations and sections, all 

 on the plan and principle of curvilinear erection, and heating 

 by hot water. Likewise the preparation of the borders, 

 planting of the trees, arrangement of the kitchen-garden, &c. 



In the annexed sketch I have calculated on an extent of 

 three and a half acres within the walls ; the space imme- 

 diately adjoining on the outside to be more or less extensive 

 as the wants or wishes of the proprietor may require. I 



