624! Summary/ View of the Progress of Gardenings 



Nuneham Courtenay near Oxford ; and by Major Price, brother 

 to Sir Uvedale Price, in laying out the flower-garden at Monge- 

 well House near WaUingtbrd, for Daines Harrington, bishop 

 of Durham. Circles and ovals, it will also be recollected, have 

 been adopted by Mr. Wells in the English flower-garden at 

 Redleaf ; in proof of which vfe refer to the engraving of this 

 garden in vol. xv. p. 365. The places that we allude to, and 

 which we should desire to be taken as examples, are, Norbiton 

 Hall near Kingston, Teddington Grove near Teddington, 

 Trent Park near Southgate, and Bayfordbury near Hertford. 

 The last place being the largest in extent, and containing the 

 greatest variety in the diameters of the circles, we consider as a 

 singularly felicitous example. (See p. 588. and 589.) 



Arboriculture. — A number of new species of hardy trees and 

 shrubs have been introduced by the Horticultural Society in the 

 course of this and of the preceding year, which are noticed in 

 Mr. Gordon's Reports, p. 1. and p. 631. The chief points in 

 the subject of Arboriculture, to which we wish to direct atten- 

 tion are, the mode of planting above the surface, as practised in 

 the Derby Arboretum (see p. 534.), and frequently recom- 

 mended in this Magazine : the mode of manasino; trees and 

 shrubs in an arboretum, also pointed out in the description of 

 that at Derby (p. 5^2.) ; and an improved mode of making 

 plans for planting the grounds of small residences, which we 

 shall here briefly describe. 



The selection of trees and shrubs for planting the grounds of 

 villas is a subject to which we wish particularly to direct atten- 

 tion. At present, when a gentleman builds a house, he gets at 

 the same time, or after the house is built, a plan for laying out 

 the grounds. This plan displays walks, lawn, beds of flowers 

 or shrubs, and single trees, and plantations ; and the gardener 

 or nurseryman is employed to carry the plan into execution. 

 There being no particular directions respecting either the kinds 

 of the trees and shrubs to be employed, or the manner in which 

 they are to be disposed, the planter necessarily exercises his 

 own taste and knowledge. If he is a gardener of the old school, 

 knowing but few kinds of trees and shrubs, then these few kinds 

 are all that he orders from the nurseryman ; and if he is a small 

 nurseryman in the country, who only cultivates a limited collec- 

 tion, the choice being left to him, he very naturally emploj^s 

 only such kinds as he has in his grounds, and he most probably 

 leaves the disposition of them to his foreman, or to the gentle- 

 man's gardener. In this way, the collection of trees and shrubs 

 about a place, and more especially a small one, and their dis- 

 position, are left in a great measure to chance. 



Now, instead of proceeding in this indefinite manner, we 

 would have every individual tree and shrub that was to be 



