204 Sketch of a Flower-Garden, 



is straight, being, in some instances, from two to four miles in 

 length, without the least turn ; a prospect which must be at all 

 times tedious to the traveller, and especially so when passing 

 over an open country. 



If these remarks should be permitted to meet the public eye 

 through the medium of your Magazine, and be deemed worthy 

 of consideration by any of your readers, the end I have in view 

 will be answered; namely, that of suggesting that wherever plant- 

 ing is carried on with a view to utility, it ought also to be 

 accompanied with taste. Thus giving as much beauty to the 

 scenery as there may be a capability of producing, according to 

 local advantages or disadvantages, of whatever nature they may 

 be. To accomplish this, a person of accredited judgment might 

 be employed with advantage. T. Rutger. 



Short grove, Essex, Nov. 1833. 



Art. VI. A Sketch of a Flower- Gar den, with Remarks. 

 By Mr. T. Rutger. 



Should you conceive the accompanying sketch {Jig. 14.) for 

 a flower-garden worth a place in your Magazine, it is at your 

 service. A section, viz. one half of it, was laid down, some years 

 since, at Woolmers, Herts, in front of a green-house which was 

 standing on a lawn. The design was by Mr. Lewis Kennedy, 

 and it was at that time much admired. 



Strictly geometrical flower-gardens, on a small scale, may, per- 

 haps, but in few instances, be deemed desirable by gardeners ; as 

 they are generally composed of narrow gravel walks, box edgings, 

 portions of grass dotted with shrubs, &c, in connection with the 

 clumps, which occasion a vast deal of labour to keep them neat 

 and clean. This, however, is essentially necessary to render them 

 attractive, and to afford pleasure to their owners. Notwithstand- 

 ing these objections, geometrical gardens are frequently desired, 

 particularly by ladies, whose recreations partly consist in viewing 

 and admiring the beauties of Flora. 



The selection of a proper site for a garden of this description 

 should be the first thing attended to : a short and convenient 

 distance from the mansion is desirable ; and if on a level all the 

 better. If within the precincts of the kitchen-garden, and walled 

 round, of course a fence is unnecessary ; but, if placed in the 

 shrubbery, a wire, or some other fence, will be requisite to keep 

 out rabbits and other vermin. I prefer the shrubbery, or pleasure- 

 ground, as being, in my opinion, more appropriate, than to have 

 the flower-garden attached to the kitchen-garden. From the 

 principal walk, as near the house as convenient, a branch walk 



