520 Design for a Gothic Tloxtoer-Garden. 



The beds on the circle in front of the house may be planted 

 solely with flowers. 



The two beds in the adjoining semilunar compartment may be 

 planted entirely with China roses. 



No rose bushes or flowering plants of any kind ought to be 

 planted among the trees and shrubs throughout the garden, and 

 the ground will not require to be dug or hoed about the roots after 

 the first year. They should stand entirely on the grass, and in- 

 dicate no appearance of the hoe or the spade. 



Art. IV. Design for a Gothic Flotver-Garden. By A. G. C. 



I HAVE taken the liberty of sending you a plan of a Gothic 

 flower-garden, (y%. 90.), suitable to be joined to a mansion in that 

 style of architecture. 



The polygon in the centre is intended for a fountain ; and I 

 think fig. 69. p. 216. in Vol. IX. would answer well. All the 

 lines throughout the garden which are marked in the plan are 

 to be planted with box ; the narrow space (about 9 in. wide) be- 

 tween the box in the flower-beds, and between the flower-beds 

 and walks, is to be covered about 1 in. thick with very white 

 sand or small pieces of white marble, or broken gypsum, broken 

 sufficiently small to pass through a sieve about ^ in. in the 

 mesh; the dust having been sifted from the lumps, and not used. 

 Gypsum is preferable to any of the other kinds of stone, as its 

 whiteness has a very good effect, and shows the green box edging, 

 and the various colours of the flowers, to great advantage. 



Infg. 90., a is the fountain ; b b are statues of Flora and 

 Diana; c c, vases, or in default of these, four upright cypresses, 

 or any other upright-growing shrubs or trees ; d <f, flower-beds ; 

 e, gypsum or sand ; fo J] gravel walks ; g g, American ever- 

 greens. Great attention should be paid to the arrangement of 

 the flowers, so as to show them off" to advantage : for this pur- 

 pose, tliey should be planted in masses, the colours of which 

 should be varied as much as possible throughout the whole. 

 The largest beds may be planted with lobelias, salpiglossises, pe- 

 tunias, gladioluses, calceolarias, &c. ; and the smaller beds with 

 the dwarf sorts of verbenas, Oenotheras, anagallises, nierembergias, 

 and a great many other kinds, which it is here unnecessary to 

 mention ; as those that are likely to make such a flower-garden 

 will, no doubt, understand what is most proper to plant it with. 

 The plain border (g g) round the flower-garden is to be planted 

 with the best sorts of evergreen shrubs ; or may be otherwise 

 planted, or covered with turf, according to the position of the 

 building to which it is attached. 



Ashbourne^ March 21. 1835. 



