62 Notes 071 Gardens and Country Seats : — 



Cydbnia japonica, China roses, and sweet briar. The space 

 within this part of the grounds is divided into compartments, 

 each a pole {5^ yards) in width, and of a certain length; so 

 that the quantity of surface, and of plants in rows at any given 

 distance, which each compartment will contain, is readily ascer- 

 tained. The compartments are numbered ; and the numbers 

 being entered in a ledger, with the stock, the number of rows, 

 plants in a row, &c., on each, Mr. Rogers can give the clearest 

 instructions as to taking up plants for executing orders, pre- 

 paring or clearing the soil, or planting, without looking at the 

 compartments above twice a year. At the same time, as the 

 main walk goes up the middle of the space between these com- 

 partments, he, friends, the visiters of the nursery, or customers, 

 have only to drive up it and return to pass in review the whole 

 of the arboretum, and of the compartments of young stock, 

 with all the men at work in them. In one of these compart- 

 ments Mr. Rogers has formed what we have never before seen 

 in any nursery ; viz., separate plots, exhibiting specimens of the 

 size, kind, and quality of the plants ; the size of the pits ; the 

 different modes of planting by contract ; and the scale of prices 

 for planting extensive tracts. The scale is 3/., 5/., 11., 10/., and 

 15/. per acre, at the rate of from 3000 to 5000 plants per acre ; 

 engaging to replace failures for a given term of years. All the 

 plants are in rows, at regular distances between and in the row; 

 and this is the only mode in which plantations can be planted 

 and managed afterwards systematically. 



The lowest-priced plot consists of alternate rows of Scotch 

 pines and larch firs ; the plants from 6 in. to 1 ft, high, and the 

 pits 1 ft. square and deep. 



The second plot, of alternate rows of deciduous trees and 

 imdergrowths, and resinous trees ; viz., the first row, one oak 

 and two hazels or birches ; the second row of Scotch pines ; the 

 third row of oaks and hazels or birches, as before ; and the 

 fourth row of larches ; the plants from 1 ft. to 1 ft. 3 in. high, 

 and the pits 1 ft. 3 in. square and deep. Where the soil is 

 good, the undergrowth plants in the deciduous rows are hazels ; 

 where bad, birches. 



The third plot is of a similar kind, but contains larger and 

 better trees ; and the pits are 1 ft. 6 in. square and deep. 



The fourth plot contains a mixture of ornamental trees and 

 shrubs : the plants are from 1 ft. 6 in. to 3 ft. high ; and the 

 holes are 1 ft. 6 in. square and deep. 



The fifth also contains a mixture of ornamental trees, from 

 3 ft. to 6 ft. high ; many of the undergrowth being laurels and 

 rhododendrons ; and the pits are 2 ft. square and deep. 



Plantations formed according to any of these plots may be 

 thinned according to a determinate system, so as ultimately to 



