the Laion, Shruhhery, and Flower- Garden. 



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A gardener may do all these things, and yet not be able to lay out an entire 

 place containing a park and pleasure-groimd, which no person without the 

 eye of a landscape painter can have the slightest pretensions to do. 



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Fig. 125. A Flower-Garden with angular Beds. 



Design ^g. 125. consists of a symmetrical assemblage of angular beds, the 

 sides of which are partly straight and partly curved. It will therefore be very 

 easily laid out, by first drawing it to a scale three or four times larger than 

 the figure, and then finding the centres to each curve. These centres are 

 found by a very simple geometrical problem, viz., three points being given 

 not in a straight line, to find the centre of a circle whose circumference shall 

 pass through them. 



Such a design as the present is better adapted for forming an episode, than 

 a shrubbery walk; or for placing before an Elizabethan greenhouse, than for 

 laying out in front of a modern villa that has no pretension to style. In a 

 place where there is a shrubbery walk of some length, flower-gardens of 

 different characters may be introduced one after another; but, on the lawn in 

 front of the house, a flower-garden or the flower-beds ouglit to be strictly in 

 accordance with the style of the elevation. 



(To be continued.) 



