History and proposed Management. 



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East Lodge of the Derbt/ Arboretum, showing the Entrance Gates. 

 Tudor Style, time of Henry VII. 



it will be impossible to do justice to the plan of exhibiting plants in the vases ; 

 because the flower-garden, if made a source of supply, would be injured in 

 appearance ; and to have a reserve garden, with a green-house or pit, would 

 involve much more expense than hiring the plants from a nurseryman, and 

 would be far from attaining the object in view so effectually. On the suppo- 

 sition that there were fifty vases, there would then be fifty different kinds of 

 named flowers or green-house plants in them every day dm'ing the summer j 

 and supposing that these kinds were changed once a week, and the same 

 kind not repeated more than once in the same season, there would then have 

 been upwards of 300 different kinds of handsome plants, with their names 

 attached, exhibited to the public in the course of a single year. To give an 

 idea of what these plants might be, I shall suppose them to consist of 200 

 showy hardy and tender annuals, 100 dwarf dahlias, 100 choice herbaceous 

 plants, 100 geraniums, 100 Australian plants, 50 heaths, and 50 miscellaneous 

 green-house plants, including fuchsias, cacti, aloes, &c. Plants to this extent, 

 in the neighbourhood of London, would be lent for a week each at an average 

 of U. a pot, so that, for the season, the total expense might be 50/. Even half 

 this sum would be productive of considerable effect and instruction. 



The plan of the Ai-boretum was made in May, 1839 ; and, being approved of 

 by Mr. Strutt, as soon as the crop of hay was removed from the ground, in the 

 July following, the work was commenced by Mr, Tomlinson, a contractor 

 for ground work, who laid out the walks, made the drains, and raised the 

 general masses of the mounds. The mounds were afterwards moulded 

 into suitable shapes, and connected by concave sides and lateral ridges with 

 the surrounding surface, under the direction of my assistant, Mr. Ranch, 

 who also superintended the planting of all the trees and shrubs, and all 

 the other details connected with the ground, till the completion of the 

 whole in September, 1840. The trees and shrubs were supplied chiefly by 

 Messrs. Whitley and Osborn, but partly also by Mr. Masters of Canterbury ; 

 and the miscellaneous collection of roses was furnished by Mr. Rivers of Saw- 

 bridgeworth ; the mistletoe was supplied by Mr. Godsall of Hereford ; and 

 some species, which could not be procured in the nurseries, were obtained 

 from the Horticultural Society's Garden. The lodges and pavilions were 

 designed by Mr. Lamb, as already mentioned : the north, or main, lodge in 

 the Elizabethan style ; the east lodge in the Tudor style, and in that variety 

 of this style which was prevalent in the time of Henry VII. ; and the 

 pavilions in the style of James I. They were all built by Mr. Thompson of 

 Derby ; and the gates to the north, or principal, lodge were cast from Mr. 

 Lamb's designs by Messrs. Marshall, Barber, and Co., of Derby. 



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