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Provincial Garde?7s. 



by gravel walks. There is an arboretum (e), consisting of trees and shrubs 

 of the rarer sorts, scattered singly over a lawn somewhat varied in surface, 

 and intersected by a gravel walk; also an American garden on turf (/), like 

 the rosary, in very great vigour and beauty. Some of the groups are 

 devoted to all the species that can be got of one genus, and others to all 

 the varieties that can be got of one species. The collections of rhododen- 

 drons, azaleas, andromedas, vacciniums, hardy ericas, and magnolias are 

 very complete; rhododendrons and azaleas, indeed, abound in various 

 parts of the garden, and, as they become too thick, are thinned out and 

 distributed in the woods, as substitutes for the laurels and other under- 

 wood now there. The surface soil of these woods being a soft, black, peat- 

 like material, the rhododendrons have already sown themselves, and in a 

 few years they will cover acres, as they already do at Caen Wood and 

 Fonthill. It seems to be a part of the plan of management at Bagshot, to 

 distribute exotic trees over the margins of the native woods, and so, gradu- 

 ally, to give them a highly enriched and botanical character. 



Refebences. 



a. Entrance from 

 the mansion. 



b. Arbour trellis- 

 work, in Uie rustic 

 manner. 



c. Rosary ; beds on 

 turf. 



d. Herbaceous gar- 

 den ; the beds on 

 gravel, with box edg- 

 ings. 



e. Arboretum. 

 /, The American 



ground; the beds on 

 turf. 



JD-, Exotic flower- 

 garden ; geraniums, 

 fuchsias, salvias, &c., 

 in beds and in bas- 

 kets of vvirework, on 

 turf. 



k i h. Covered seats, 

 in the rustic style. 



/, Dutch garden. 

 (For its details see 

 fig- 117.) 



m. Area, for setting 

 out the green-house 

 plants. 



^■i n. Avenue leading 

 to the grand conser- 

 vatory. 



o. Reserve-garden. 



p. Forcing and pro- 

 pagating house. 



q. Potting shed. 



r. Frames and pits 

 for forcing and propa- 

 gating. 



s, Working shed, 

 and stores of garden 

 materials. 



t. Grove, contain- 

 ing some fine speci- 

 mens of very large 

 forest trees. 



u, Beds for masses of flowers of various sorts, 

 one sort only in a mass. 



V, Masses of dahlias. 



w, Rustic vases for flowers, in the Dropmore 

 manner. 



X, Walks among steep banks of rockwork, 

 and large masses of rock. 



In a mixed flower-garden of trees and shrubs with baskets of flowers, 

 hardy and exotic (g), there is a range of green-houses, full of showy plants 

 in flower, and arranged in a manner well deserving general imitation in the 



»/, Bridge in the rustic manner, to carry one 

 walk over another. 



z, Green-house, with horizontal trellis, co- 

 vered with rare creepers on the outside of the 

 front. 



Sf, Forest trees and evergreens. 



