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Rustic Flower Baskets at StoJce Place. 



to make them strive to improve them ; or should landlords make 

 the care of the garden an article in the leases and agreements 

 of those who farm their estates ? what say you, or what say 

 your intelligent contributors, as to devising a remedy ? There 

 is no doubt of the fact, that farm-house gardening is generally 

 disgraceful, with comparatively few exceptions, from the Land's 

 End to John o ' Groat's ; and that it is very far from being abreast 

 with " the spirit of the age." 

 Ashstead Park, Nov. 17. 1834. 



Art. V. Descriptive Notice of some of the Rustic Flotxier Baskets 

 in the Grounds at Stoke Place. By Mr. Andrew Patrick, Gar- 

 dener there. 



According to promise, I have sent you sketches of some of 

 the baskets {Jigs. 1, 2, 3.) you so much admired when you 



were at Stoke. They 

 are all made of wood, 

 and covered with larch 

 bark. The basket is 

 screwed on an iron 

 pivot, for the conveni- 

 ence of being taken off, 

 and put under cover 

 during winter. Those 

 who have plenty of 

 room, if they think it 

 necessary, may have 

 these baskets filled, and 

 covered with flowers 

 in the conservatory or 

 green-house, before 

 they are put out on the 

 lawn in spring. Figs. 2. 

 and 3. are to the same 

 scale asj%. 1. 



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Stoke Place Gardens, 

 Jan. 1834. 



The architectural forms of the bases and supporting shafts to 

 these baskets are in incomparably better taste than the rustic 

 anomalous forms, composed of roots and crooked branches, 

 which some adopt ; for this reason, that the object produced is, 



