610 Flowcr-Garden at EsJioli Hall, Yorkshire, 



rulate; coriaceous, glabrous, and shining (as if varnished) above ; 

 velvety, canescent, and strongly 3-ribbed beneath. Panicles ax- 

 illary, elongated, on rather long peduncles. Found on sub- 

 alpine hills near the sources of the Oregon, and at the Kettle 

 Falls. {^Torrey and Gray.) 



Art. IX. The Flower-Garden at Esholt Hall, Yorkshire, the Seat of 

 W. R. C. Stansfield, Esq., M.P. By J. Pringle, late Gardener 

 there, now Gardener to the Right Honourable Lord Fevershann, 

 Duncombe Park. 



EsiiOLT Hall, the seat of W. R. C. Stansfield, Esq., M.P., is 

 a regularly built stone edifice, having on three sides of the build- 

 ing an elevated terrace, enriched with vases, urns, &c., from 

 which a walk leads to the central entrance of the flower-garden, 

 which is the subject of the present communication. Part of the 

 garden I laid out in the year 1833, and completed it, according 

 to the plan herewith sent [Jig. 55.), in 1837. 



The ground is nearly on a level surface, with a slight inclina- 

 tion to the east, having a wall on the north side, 8 ft. high and 

 100 yards in length, against which are planted different varieties 

 of China roses, and various creepers and half-hardy shrubs. 

 On the east and west ends of the garden there is grass (not 

 shown on the plan for want of room) to the extent of the wall, 

 on which are planted hardy flowering shrubs, each shrub having 

 a circle dug round it proportionate to the size of the plant; and 

 these circles are chiefly planted with early flowering bulbs, as 

 crocus, snowdrop, narcissus, &c. 



All the walks are gravelled, and the beds surrounded with 

 box, which is kept very low by frequent clipping. When the 

 garden was formed, drains were cut in different parts of the 

 ground 2 ft. below the surface, and the walks made from 1 ft. to 

 15 in. deep, and filled to within 3 in. of the surface with broken 

 stones or brick rubbish ; each walk acting as a drain to the 

 adjoining bed. There are small grates placed in the walks over 

 the main drains, which take away all the surface water, and 

 render the walks quite dry and firm to walk on in wet weather, 

 or after a shower of rain. The soil was either entirely taken 

 out to the depth of 15 in., or mixed with compost suitable for 

 what was intended in each bed ; and annually afterwards the 

 beds underwent a partial renewal of soil, to suit the change of 

 arrangement which I made with the greenhouse plants and 

 annuals; and, as I grew the dahlias every year in the same 

 places, I took a quantity of soil entirely out where the plants 

 had grown, and replaced it with fresh compost every season. 

 Most of the beds have patches of bulbs, or low-growing early 

 flowering plants, planted about 6 in. from the box, and at regular 



