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management of moderate collections, viz. the broadest-leaved plants are 

 commenced with at one end of the house, and the narrowest-leaved ones 

 at the other ; the next broadest and the next narrowest are proceeded with 

 from both ends, till the collection is joined where both sizes of leaves have 

 merged into the medium size. When it is considered that in the winter 

 time there are not many green-house plants in flower, and that their chief 

 beauty at that season depends on their leaves, it will easily be conceived 

 that this mode of arrangement produces considerable effect. It is also, as 

 Mr. Toward informed us, better for the plants in point of watering, sun, 

 and air. Interspersed with the general collection of green-house plants, 

 were some fine specimens of stove plants, bulbs, and hardy plants, brought 

 into flower in the reserve hot-house. Among these the Schizanthus was 

 the most conspicuous. Against the end of these green-houses is a Chimon- 

 anthus fragrans, which has ripened seeds; and in front is a Fuchsia gracilis, 

 which has stood two winters without any covering, and flowered luxuriantly 

 during summer. 



There are, in different spots, some exceedingly well executed covered 

 seats in the rustic style {h i k) ; in one of them {k) the seat is formed of a 

 collection of specimens of different sorts of wood grown in the gardens or 

 park. There is a Dutch garden recently formed (/) ; it has a basin and 

 fountain in the centre, surrounded and intersected by gravel walks, with 

 twenty-four beds on grass, for growing the more choice florist's flowers in 

 masses, (^g. 117.) There are an area for setting out the green-house 



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plants (m); arbours in different situations, as in the centre of the rosary and 

 herbaceous garden, &c., covered with twiners ; a number of rustic vases, 

 for containing plants, in theDropmore manner; and a handsome architectural 

 orangery, apart from this garden, in the wood. It is approached by a noble 

 avenue (7i), on a moderate ascent ; and, in looking from the conservatory, 

 five avenues, diverging in different directions through the descending wood, 

 add greatly to the dignity of the scene. The orange trees are in excellent 

 health, and covered with fruit and flowers. 



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