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Art. Vf. A Series of Designs for laying out and planting Flower' 

 Gardens, ivith Remarks on each by the Conductor. Design 5. 

 By A Country-bred Gardener. 



Our readers, by turning to Vol. XI. p. 449., or to Vol. VIT. 

 p. 726. 727.5 will be reminded of the intention of this series of 

 designs, for correcting a bad plan of a flower-garden. The 

 one now before us {Jig.lS.) was accompanied by the following 

 remarks : — 



" Sir, Having seen your plan of a flower-garden, published in 

 Vol. VII. p. 726. and 727., as an exercise for the talents of 

 young gardeners in laying out grounds, I beg leave to sub- 

 mit the design {Jig. 18.) for your inspection ; but I am rather 

 doubtful whether it will meet your approbation, as I have seen, 

 in one of your former Numbers, objections made by you as to 

 dispersing the beds regularly over the surface ; though that, I 

 think, depends a great deal on the taste of the gentleman or lady 

 that may be going to make a garden. Towards the upper left- 

 hand corner, I have introduced a narrower walk, to go in at one 

 side, and round what seems to be an ornamental tree or shrub, 

 and out at the other side : this walk may be admitted, or not, as 

 may be thought most agreeable. My humble opinion of the 

 original is, that the walks are very well ; but the beds next the 

 house, and, again, at the farther end from the house, are too 

 much in a line ; some of them too close together, and too many 

 of them of one shape. 



" A Country-bred Gardener. 

 " April 28. 1832." 



The plan of A Country-bred Gardener, we regret to say, 

 has many faults, and but few beauties. As the plan has been 

 in our possession four years, if the author of it has been a reader 

 of the Gatrlener's Magazine during that period, we have no 

 doubt the faults will now appear almost as obvious to him as 

 they do to us. To point them out in detail would be to repeat 

 much of what we have said on former occasions : suffice it to 

 say, that there is a total want of connexion in the position of the 

 beds relatively to one another, and to the walks ; a total want 

 of expression and character, because the beds are in no degree 

 grouped ; and a want of harmony in the forms of the beds, 

 because some of them are of the most artificial, or, in other words, 

 geometrical, shapes, and others of shapes which may be called 

 natural or accidental : the whole shows a want of artist-like 

 feeling, and of knowledge of composition, - — Cond. 



