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at Headingly Church, there are buildings which would make 

 the road too narrow for a public entrance so near the gardens ; 

 and, as I see that G. N. Tatham, Esq., has a right of road from 

 the Leeds and Otley one to his land (marked occupation road 

 on the plan), I would choose that as the main entrance ; and 

 would recommend the purchase of a little more land of J. Mar- 

 shall, Esq., to allow of a more circuitous line of road. I would 

 make an embankment on the lower side of the road, and plant it 

 with evergreens, which would completely hide the view of the 

 gardens, until you arrive at the kitchen-garden wall, which ought 

 to be 12 ft. high, in order to prevent the grounds being seen until 

 you come to the entrance gates. 



Having now disposed of the entrance, I shall next give some 

 explanation of the interior of the gardens. From the entrance, 

 the visiter would be directed to a most spacious gravelled 

 terrace (No. 80 in Jig. S5.)i 90 yards long, by 15 yards wide, 

 ornamented with vases, balustrades, &c.; having behind him 

 a most magnificent range of conservatories, hot-houses, &c. 

 [Jig. 36.); and before him a flower-garden, enriched with sculpture, 

 vases, fountains, &c., and kept in as high a degree of manage- 

 ment as the present advanced state of gardening will admit of. 

 Looking forward, he will have a partial view of the whole 

 gardens, with the pond (77) for aquatic fowls and plants, 

 having a jet d'eau in the centre, backed by the dense foliage of 

 different species of timber trees there introduced, which will 

 completely exclude the quarries behind them. I have, likewise, 

 in other places, endeavoured to introduce groups of large 

 trees, where there was anything unsightly to exclude. 



Throughout the arboretum, I have strictly adhered to scien- 

 tific arrangement in each division of the vegetable kingdom, 

 proportioning the spaces of each order, by imaginary lines on 

 the plan, to the degree of ornament it will add to the garden ; 

 which allotment of space I have likewise had in view to bring 

 particular tribes of trees into the soil most suitable for them. The 

 orders ^osacese and Leguminosae will exemplify my first, and 

 JSriceae and jSalicinae my second, object. 



Having, in botanical arrangements, felt the inconvenience of 

 having separate departments for trees and herbaceous plants, 

 which are frequently placed widely apart in the garden, and as 

 the orders containing both ligneous and herbaceous plants have 

 the principal characters of systematic agreement common to 

 both, I can see no reason why they should be taken to separate 

 departments. I have therefore placed all the herbaceous plants 

 near to their respective orders of ligneous plants, in parterres 

 on the grass, which, from the commencement of the arboretum, 

 will be all on the visiter's left hand ; which arrangement, I confi- 

 dently anticipate, will greatly facilitate the study of the natural 



