590 Summary View of the Progress of Gardening, 



trees and shrubs ; a fountain for the central basin, to be worked 

 by steam; and islands near the two extreme ends of the Ser- 

 pentine River, in order to conceal the terminations of that piece 

 of water. . 



Some changes have taken place in the grounds about Windsor 

 Castle ; but when we saw them, in May last, they did not appear 

 to us to merit the name of improvements. We have seen a plan 

 for a kitchen-garden of 20 acres to be formed at Frogmore ; but 

 nothing is said of such a plan in the Report for 1841. We re- 

 commend the kitchen-garden at Versailles as a model. 



We have elsewhere (p. 652.) stated the intention of the Woods 

 and Forests to form public walks on the crown lands at Stirling; 

 and, in the Report referred to, it is noticed that between 14 and 

 15 acres of land at St. Andrews, the crown leases of which had 

 expired, are given up to the town, on consideration of their pre- 

 serving certain structures already existing, including a gateway 

 and towers, as objects of antiquarian and historical interest. 

 This ground will, doubtless, be turned into a public garden. 

 There are other towns, both in England and Scotland, as well as 

 in Ireland, similarly circumstanced to St. Andrews ; and we have 

 little doubt the commissioners will be equally liberal to them 

 when an opportunity offers. What we should wish to see, above 

 all other things connected with public parks and gardens, are, the 

 arrangement and planting of Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Craigs 

 as a public garden and monumental cemetery for Edinburgh, or 

 rather for Scotland. We would have no common graves or 

 gravestones in it to vulgarise the conspicuous features, but only 

 walks, and handsome monuments ; the ground being planted with 

 every tree and shrub that would grow there. Burying places for 

 those who could not afford ornamental monuments would be 

 provided in proper situations, and surrounded by masses of 

 plantation. 



Cemeteries are now established in the suburbs of London in 

 every direction, and they are either formed or in contemplation 

 near most of our large towns. The defects and excellences of those 

 of Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow will be pointed out in the 

 course of our tour, in our ensuing volume. We are happy to see 

 some attention bestowed on churchyards in different parts of the 

 country. The improvements in these consist in keeping the surface 

 of the ground even, in consequence of which it can be mown and 

 kept as neat as a lawn ; in forming regular gravelled or paved 

 walks through and around the area; in forming a paved gutter 

 round old churches which have dripping eaves ; and in intro- 

 ducing here and there a few evergreen shrubs or trees, such as 

 the L'ish yew, the cypi'ess, the cembran pine, and, in some 

 cases, the cedar of Lebanon. As an example of a churchyard 

 reformed after this manner in the very best taste, we refer to 



