20 Public Garden for a Corporate Tawn^ 



to the attractions of the garden, more especially as a place of 

 resort for young persons, and consequently increase its value to 

 the town. 



In the management of this garden, the ground in which the 

 masses are planted will only require to be kept clear of weeds, 

 and covered with the short grass which is mown from the glades. 

 As the trees and shrubs advance in growth, the duplicates will 

 require to be removed ; and, after this, both trees and shrubs 

 must be prevented from touching each other by pruning. While 

 this is attended to, care must be taken that, in all the masses near 

 the boundary fence, both trees and shrubs be allowed to grow as 

 close to each other as they can, without coming into absolute con- 

 tact. The masses of roses will require to be taken up and pro- 

 perly replanted in fresh soil every three or four years, and the 

 masses of flowers, which may be chiefly hardy shov/y annuals of 

 low growth, or entirely mignonette, will also require the soil to 

 be occasionally renewed. It must be constantly borne in mind 

 by the managers of this garden, that a border or plantation of 

 trees and shrubs which are never allowed to touch, but which 

 are, at the same time, placed as close together as they possibly 

 can be without touching, produces a much more effectual screen 

 than a thick plantation. In a thin plantation, such as we allude 

 to, there is a compact mass of foliage on every tree and shrub, 

 from the ground upwards ; and, if there are only two rows of 

 such trees and shrubs, the plants of the one row alternating with 

 the openings of the other, the screen will be as effectual as if it 

 consisted of a holly hedge. If this mode of keeping up a screen, 

 both in the boundary plantations and in the masses which sepa- 

 rate the walks, be neglected, the effect of the garden will very 

 soon be materially injured, and the plantations, so far from hav- 

 ing that gardenesque character which they are intended to have, 

 will resemble mere commonplace masses of shrubbery ; the 

 boundary will be seen from every point of view ; the eye will 

 penetrate the interior in all directions ; and the effect of the whole, 

 as a work of art, will be destroyed. 

 Bayswater, Oct. 26. 1835. 



LIST OF TREES AND SHRUBS PROPOSED TO BE PLANTED IN 

 THE PUBLIC GARDEN AT . 



I. Evergreen Trees and tall Evergreen Shrubs. 



No. in 

 Plan. 



1. Quei'cus r\ex - 



2. Suher 



3. Tia-neri - 



4i Luconiheana 



No. of 





Plants. 



Price. 





S. d. 



- 64 



64 



- 1 



2 6 



- 6 



15 



- 19 



*38 



No. in 



No. of 





Plan. 



Plants. 



Price, 

 S. d. 



5. Q. Cerris clentata 



- 13 



t32 6 



6. virens 



- 2 



3 



7. Banisters - 



- 1 



1 G 



8. 7'axus baccata 



- 3 



4 6 



