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will be effectually driven away. " If you have trees, the crops of 

 which you value, make a smoking (mind, not a blazing) fire 

 under each : it will put you to some inconvenience, if your 

 garden be near your house, but the apples will repay you for 

 that." [Rusiicus.) 



Art. IV. A Competition Desig7i for the "proposed Leeds Zoological 

 and Botanical Garden. By James Pringle, Gardener to W. R. C. 

 Stansfield, Esq., M.P., at Esholt Hall, near Leeds. 



In submitting the accompanying designs to the Committee 

 of the Leeds Zoological and Botanical Society, it will be 

 necessary to give some explanation respecting the arrangement 

 of the plans, and the different purposes I have had in view in 

 proposing them. I have provided a kitchen and fruit garden, 

 of about two acres in extent : it was not mentioned in the ad- 

 vertisement ; but I beg leave to suggest the propriety of having 

 such a department, as, no doubt, many individuals will be as much 

 interested in the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, as in that of 

 curious or ornamental plants. Should it not answer the purposes 

 of the establishment, it might, when well stocked with fruit 

 trees and vegetables, be let at a good rent, which would help to 

 defray the expenses of the garden ; or, should it be the intention 

 of the Society to have no fruit or vegetable department, I would 

 then suggest that the same piece of ground be divided into 

 separate compartments, for grazing the different species of hardy 

 graminivorous animals ; or, if the Society should wish to 

 have a museum for zoological, botanical, or geological speci- 

 mens (which I would suggest as an addition to the Institution 

 worthy of attention), there will be sufficient ground, and well 

 situated, for the above purposes, or any future additions which 

 the Society might require, without interfering with the finished 

 departments of the garden. 



The Approach. — The grounds are not well situated for a 

 good and easy approach, as the gardens would be displayed to 

 the best advantage if entered at the bottom of Chapel Lane; 

 but, to enter there, the road through Burley is very indifferent; 

 and to make a road across Woodhouse Moor would involve con- 

 siderable expense ; also, by either of the above-named roads, the 

 traffic of the quarries would prove a great annoyance to visiters. 

 I would therefore sacrifice the most commanding entrance to 

 the gardens to public convenience and economy of your funds ; 

 and would make a good road the whole length of Chapel Lane, 

 on your own property, making the entrance about half-way 

 down the lane, thus uniting the Leeds and Burley roads at 

 one point. As to the branch read which would, of course, be 

 wanted from the Leeds and Otley turnpike, if it were taken off 



