THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



JANUARY, 1839. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Descriptive Notices of select Suburban Residences, tvith 

 Remarks on each ; intended to illustrate the Principles and Practice 

 of Landscape-Gardening. By the Conductor. 



No. 10.* Mount Grove, Hampstead. 



Hampstead and Highgate have been noted for their suburban 

 villas, ever since the time of Gerard and Parkinson. These 

 villas appear to have been then, as now, principally occupied by 

 London merchants ; many of whom had rich gardens, contain- 

 ing foreign plants introduced through their connexion with 

 other countries. It was in the garden of Master James Cole at 

 Highgate, Parkinson's particular friend, that the common laurel 

 was first planted : and there, we are informed, it flowered and 

 ripened fruit ; being protected through the winter by a blanket 

 thrown over it in the most severe weather. Hampstead and 

 Highgate are not only well calculated for villas from their 

 elevated surface, but also from that surface being varied by 

 numerous and strongly marked undulations ; so that all these 

 villas have not only views of considerable extent in one direc- 

 tion, but many of them have what may be called home views 

 across the undulations. The Hampstead and Highgate villas, 



* No. 1. we consider to be Dr. Neill's Garden, Canon Mills Cottage, Edin- 

 burgh, Vol. XII. p. 333. ; No. 2. the Garden of H. Marshal, Esq., in the town 

 of GodalmingjVol. XII. p. 474. ; No. 3. Chesterholme Parsonage, the residence 

 of the Rev. Anthony Hadley, Vol. XIII. p. 163. ; No. 4. Hendon Rectory, the 

 residence of the Rev. Theodore Williams, Vol. XIV. p. 220. ; No. 5. Mrs, 

 Lawrence's Villa at Drayton Green, Vol. XIV. p. 305.; No. 6. Hoole House, 

 near Chester, the residence of Lady Broughton, Vol. XIV. p. 353.; No. 7. 

 Quinta de la Valle, the residence of Dr. Renton in Madeira, Vol. XIV. p. 449. ; 

 No. 8. Bedford Lodge, Camden Hill, the Duke of Bedford, Vol. XIV. p. 401. ; 

 No. 9. The Garden of Mr. Abel Ingpen, A.L.S., Upper Manor Street, Chelsea, 

 Vol. XIV. p. 456. In the course of the current volume, we intend to give 

 plans and views of Kenwood near Hampstead, Wimbledon House, Redleaf, and 

 Fortis Green (W. A. Nesfield), the engravings of all which are already com- 

 pleted; and of Mr. Harrison's Villa at Cheshunt, the Abbe Gosier's Villa at 

 Rouen, a villa at Berlin, a villa at Frankfort, and one at Desio near Milan, 

 the drawings of which have been made or received. Besides these, we con- 

 template giving several British villas, to the owners of which we have only 

 just applied for permission to make the necessary plans and views. — Cond. 



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