History and proposed Management. 



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Interior View of the main Entrance to the Derby Arboretum. 

 Style Elizabethan. 



and gates are shown in jigs. 57. to 60., and the ground plans of which are in 

 accordance with Mr. Strutt's instructions in regard to public rooms, yards, 

 and other accommodations. Mr. Lamb also designed fig, 56. ; and it may be 

 proper to state that the suggestion of the pedestal and statue is entirely my 

 own, and formed no part of my instructions ; and that the idea may be either 

 carried into execution or not, as the corporation, after they are in possession 

 of the garden, may think fit. If a statue be not placed here, the design of the 

 garden will not be complete without an obelisk, or some such object, in the 

 centre of the circle. 



A s my instructions were to preserve as much as possible the belt and the 

 trees in the interior of the ground already existing, I considered it most con- 

 venient to adopt the surrounding walk as a line of demarcation between the 

 collection or arboretum in the interior of the grounds, and the miscellaneous 

 assemblage in theu- circumference. Had the belt not existed, I should have 

 extended the arboretum over the ground occupied by it, and thus have ob- 

 tained room for a greater number of species, and a larger space for each indi- 

 vidual tree and shrub. As things are, I have extended the belt in those 

 places where it was wanting, and added to its interest by evergreen under- 

 ; growths, such as rhododendron, kalmia, laurustinus, box, holly, and ma- 

 honia ; by low trees, such as arbor vitse, red cedar, and cypress ; and by 

 large trees, such as cedar of Lebanon, silver fir, hemlock spruce, and 

 evergreen oak. I have also introduced a collection of 100 different kinds 

 of roses, all named ; and placed the genera t/'lmus, Quercus, Populus, and 

 (Salix in the new part of the belt, in order to give more room in the interior. 



All the ground not covered by trees or shrubs I have directed to be laid down 

 in grass to be kept closely mown ; but round each tree and shrub forming the col- 

 lection I have preserved a circular space, varying from 3 ft. to 5 ft, in diameter, 

 which (with the hill in the centre, comprising one third of the width of the circle, 

 and on which the plant is placed) is not sown with grass, but is always to be 

 kept clear of weeds. The use of this circle and little hill is to prevent the grass 

 from injuring the roots of the trees while young, and to admit of the larger roots 

 showing themselves above the surface, where they ramify from the stem, as 

 before mentioned. Some few of the shrubs which require peat soil, such as 

 the heaths, have had that Koil prepared for them ; and the genera Cfstus and 



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