16 Public Garden for a Corporate Toum, 



indicated in the list to be planted in such situations are chiefly 

 evergreens, in order completely to screen^the fence ; and, for the 

 same important end of disguising the apparent extent, no en- 

 trances must be made to the garden in addition to the two indi- 

 cated. If we imagine four entrances to this garden, at the four 

 angles, or in the centre of the four sides, instead of two in the 

 centre of two opposite sides, the seclusion of the interior will be 

 destroyed, and one main intention of the design completely de- 

 feated. 



The walks are so arranged, the surface of the ground so 

 formed, and the evergreen trees so disposed, that a spectator 

 walking on any one of the walks will, in very few cases, be able 

 to see the other walks, as the section of the ground will show. 

 If the ground cannot be raised to the height indicated in the sec- 

 tions, nearly the same effect will be produced, in the course of a 

 few years, by the growth of the trees and shrubs. 



In the execution of the plan, the first step is to mark out the 

 tunnel walk, and to form a drain in the bottom of it, commencing 

 at the entrance to the garden at a, and continuing it at least as far 

 as g ; the tunnel should then be built, because, till this is done, 

 the ground over, and on each side of it, cannot be prepared for 

 planting. A drain should also be formed from the point «, along 

 the bottom of the walk, and through the boundary, to the point 

 b. A drain will also require to be formed from the point c in the 

 walk, all along its bottom, to b ; and also from the point c, along 

 the bottom of the walk, and through the boundary, to the point d: 

 from this point a drain will require to be conducted, along the 

 bottom of the walk, to e ; from e, along the bottom of the walk, 

 toy"; and also from ^ and bio J". Other drains, necessary to 

 effect the complete drainage of the walks, will readily occur to 

 the foreman who will be sent to superintend the execution of the 

 work. Nothing conduces more to the comfort of a public gar- 

 den than having the walks at all times fine and dry ; and, where 

 these walks are 10 ft. broad, as they are here in the broadest 

 parts, such a result cannot be accomplished satisfactorily without 

 a drain along the bottom of each walk, with gratings at the sides 

 of the walk, communicating with the drain at regular distances. 



None of these drains, however, will require to be formed, till 

 after the planting is completed, except the tunnel drain from a to 

 g^ and the upper drain from a to b. 



These drains being made, and the tunnel built, the ground may 

 be formed agreeably to the sections ; after which, all that portion 

 of it intended to be planted, must be trenched to the depth of 

 4 ft. at least ; and, where the soil is bad, it must be taken out, 

 and replaced by good soil. The soil from such portions of the 

 ground as are to be covered with grass, where it is good, may be 

 used for this purpose, and the bad soil substituted for it, as it 



