210 Gardens, and the State of Gardening, 



and will not keep longer than a few clays, decaying at the core 

 when the exterior seems sound. 



One great fault in the arrangement of this garden is, that the 

 melon-ground is placed in the middle of the kitchen-garden, 

 separated, however, by hedges from the body of the ground. 

 Cucumbers and melons are principally grown in pits originally 

 used for the cultivation of the pine-apple. One of these pits has 

 lately been transformed into a peach-house, by planting the trees 

 on the outside, and introducing their stems through the front 

 wall ; and, as the trees are trained upon a wire trellis close 

 beneath the glass, first-rate fruit might reasonably be expected. 

 The hot-houses consist of three vineries, in which I have some- 

 times seen very superior grapes. 



The gardener, Mr. Hewson, is an ardent florist, cultivating 

 with considerable success most of the fashionable flowers of the 

 day. 



At Mr. Monson's the flower-garden is the only department 

 worthy of notice. It is a gently sloping lawn, thickly studded 

 with flower-beds of various forms and sizes, in which such plants 

 as dahlias, calceolarias, fuchsias, &c, make a fine display in 

 summer and autumn. Iron framework, not of the most tasteful 

 designs, is placed here and there upon the lawn, for the support 

 of twining plants. Several large bushes of Buddlea globosa 

 formerly stood upon the turf, and, when covered with their 

 golden balls of honeycomb-like blossoms, they were beautiful 

 objects ; the last winter, however, destroyed them, or at least 

 they were killed to the ground. The only glass structure at this 

 place is a small but pretty green-house, standing against the end 

 of the dwelling-house, and communicating with the rooms. It 

 contains only common plants ; and I notice it merely for the 

 sake of recommending, as an admirable trellis plant, the Helio- 

 tropium peruvianum, which, trained to a trellis at the back of 

 this house, grows luxuriantly, and fills the whole place with its 

 delicious fragrance. 



Newton le Willows is a retired village, within a short distance 

 of Bedale, at which a gentleman named Forster, or Foster, has 

 built a neat mansion, and formed a miniature garden, on a piece 

 of ground which previously was a boggy waste, close to the 

 public road. Apparently, the house and its appendages, with 

 the kitchen and flower-gardens, do not occupy much more than 

 an acre of ground; and yet, in this circumscribed space, it has 

 been attempted to display both the geometric and the modern 

 styles of gardening, including, likewise, an American ground, 

 shrubbery, rockwork, fountain, mosshouse, and other garden 

 ornaments. Considerable skill is shown in the disposition of the 

 various parts; but, viewed as a whole, the effect is puerile, 

 owing, evidently, to too much having been attempted. Little 





