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Design for a Flower-Garden on Gravel, 



Art. V. Remarks on a Design for a Floxver- Garden on Gravel, 

 'with Hints for the Grouping of Plants in Flower-Gardens. By 

 W. P. Ayres, Author of "Culture of Cucumbers in Pots," &c. 



In the Gardener's Magazine for March last, p. 180, 181., you 

 have inserted a design for a flower-garden on gravel, with a list 

 of plants " with which it may be stocked the first year." Now, 

 as I profess to have imbibed the principles of my taste in land- 

 scape and flower-gardening from the writings of yourself in the 

 Gardener*s Magazi?ie, and in other /% 



of your excellent works ; and as I 

 find that I have either misappre- 

 hended your principles, or that you 

 have not acted in accordance with 

 them, in grouping the plants in 

 the designs above adverted to, 

 I take the liberty of offering a kw 

 remarks on what I consider er- 

 rors in the arrangement ; and I do 

 this the more confidently, because 

 I am sure that one whose whole 

 life has been devoted to the fur- 

 therance of horticultural science 

 will not take offence at his own 

 performances being passed through 

 the " crucible of investigation," 

 especially when the investigator is 

 a disciple of his own. 



Of the plan itself (and I must 

 here request the reader to turn 

 to it, or you to repeat it (see^^o-. 

 11.), though it is certainly not 

 so pretty as the original one in 

 the Volume for 1836, yet, retain- 

 ing the boundary fence, I do not 

 see that the space could have been 

 much better disposed of, or any 

 improvement made, unless it were 

 to convert the four triangular 

 beds, numbered 11, 12, 48, and 

 49, into two, as they are too small 

 to group well with the other beds, 

 and it is not indispensable that 

 there should be a walk between 

 them. Perhaps, also, the beds 18 



and 19, and 26 and 27, would be as „ 5 ,0 ,5 ''"''25 .-, 

 well made into two, as they would ^"^ — ' — ' — ' ' "— 



'' Fig. U. Garden on Gravel. 



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