518 Notes on Gardens and Country Seats : — 



the assistance of shears at the roots of the shrubs. Mrs. 

 Lawrence attributes much of the high order and keeping of 

 the whole to the care and attention of her head gardener, 

 Mr. Cornelius, brother to the foreman of that name in the hot- 

 houses of Messrs. Lee's nursery. 



Aldine Cottage, Bagster, Esq., near Shepher-d's Bush. — 



July 29. A very neatly kept small place, well worthy of notice, 

 on account of the ardent love of gardening, and of order and 

 neatness, displayed by the occupier ; and by the improvement 

 which he has made on Nutt's bee-hives, so as to render them 

 more likely to come within the reach of the labouring cot- 

 tager. Details of Mr. Bagster's hive, by himself, will be given 

 in a future Number. 



Bn'ggs's Villa, Acton. — Beautifully situated on a bank 

 which slopes down to a small brook; the lawn studded with 

 choice shrubs, and varied with beds of flowers, and the steps 

 to the hous3 embroidered with pots of house-plants. The 

 main entrance literally stopped by a hedge of Campanula 

 pyramidalis, at least 6 ft. high. We have admired this place 

 for years, without having before mentioned it in print. 



Gunnersbury House, A, Copland, Esq. — This is a fragment 

 of a park, v/hich was laid out by the celebrated Kent, about 

 the year IT^O. The old features remaining are some fine 

 cedars and two pieces of rather naked water. The present 

 house was built by Mr. Copland, on the summit of a brow, 

 commanding a park of 50 acres, with the rich cultivated 

 scenery of Middlesex beyond, and in the extreme distance the 

 Surrey hills. Among the fine features of this place may be 

 enumerated a straight terrace on the lawn in front of the 

 house, terminating in an alcove at one end, and, at the other, 

 passing through a triumphal arch to a winding walk, carried 

 along the brow of the hilly part of the grounds, so as to dis- 

 play the leading features of the park and the distant scenery, 

 on the one hand ; and, on the other, highly kept lawn, with 

 choice shrubs, and all the usual furniture of flowers, ba- 

 sins, fountains, sculptures, rockwork, basketwork, seats, and 

 trellises; added to these, there are a very handsome billiard- 

 room containing also an organ, a flower-garden, and a large 

 piece of water. The flower-garden is included within a cir- 

 cular walk, with a smaller circle in the centre, and two semi- 

 circular basins of water, with an arcade of trelliswork. All 

 the forms are perfectly simple, but they are very effective, 

 especially when clothed, as they now are, by the most select 

 plants. One circumstance in the plan of these beds deserves 

 notice J they are placed on turf, but surrounded by a margin, 

 of the breadth of 4 in., of gravel, within which is an edging of 

 box, kept low and flat, so as to form an inner margin corre- 



