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to the garden entrance of the house. Along the 

 ■walls of the house, some Tea-scented Roses (both 

 dwarf and climbing) would find a congenial home 

 if it should be a sunny aspect. Following down 

 the side next to the division wall, the planting 

 of mixed shi-ubs should be continued, tUl the 

 bottom of the lawn is reached. This being a 

 rather wide border, some room along the front 

 will be very suitably filled with hardy herbaceous 

 plants. At the comer of this shrub border, there is 

 a space marked out for an arbour or summer-house. 

 Along the bottom of the garden and facing the house 

 will be an excellent position for Rhododendrons 

 and other showy flowering plants. Some dots de- 

 note standard Roses, or, in lieu thereof, a weeping 

 Ash could be substituted. Two flower-beds are 

 shown, one on each side of the foregoing. A thin 

 edge of evergreen Privet should shut off the lawn 

 from the small plot allotted either as a kitchen 

 garden, or for the special culture of Roses, Carnations, 

 Pinks, and hardy plants for cutting purposes. The 

 wall at the bottom of this garden can be covered 

 either with evergreen climbers or MoreUo Cherries, if 

 a north or east aspect ; with climbing Roses, Peach- 

 trees, Pear-trees, or red and white Currants, if either 

 south, south-west, or west aspect. Tomatoes might 

 also be grown on the same wall, as long as there is 

 room. The shrubs bounded by the path leading to 

 the house from the lower garden should be of a 

 mixed character. A few taU-growing trees along 

 this side would not look amiss, such as a few Limes, 

 or here and there a Copper Beech and a Laburnum. 

 One flower-bed is shown on this side about half-way 

 up ; this would do for rock-plants or other hardy 

 flowers. Space is allowed in the centre for a lawn 

 tennis ground of the usual size. 



In the plan marked No. 2, the arrangements will 

 be seen to be different. One pathway only from the 

 house is shown, branching at the comer for access to 

 the garden and side entrance to the house. The dots 

 denote Roses, as in the former case, and a trellis is 

 shown for climbers to screen the garden front of the 

 house. On the garden side of this trellis is shown a 

 rockery with a small grass-plot infront, bounded by 

 the side path. In the recessed corner is shown a 

 spot for ferns, by which passes the path extending 

 along the entire length of the house, with a garden 

 entrance in the middle. Standard Roses are there 

 shown on the turf, with a flower-bed in front of the 

 entrance, and a rather large clump of shrubs and 

 border plants, to shut ofi the end of the house from 

 the lawn. Following the line of the path from the 

 corner of the building, we find one side of it is the 

 boundary for the foregoing clump, and on the other 

 is a narrow border with a break of Roses half-way 

 down the garden. The wall could be covered with 



climbers or fruit-trees as in No. 1, and the border 

 itself with strawberries or any other low-growing 

 plant. A flower-bed is shown near the Roses, and 

 lower down a narrow belt of shrubs that is extended 

 round to the corner, in which is shown a summer- 

 house ; some dots also denote Roses or a weeping Ash. 

 The nan-ow belt of shrubs on the division side will 

 be sufficient to hide the wall with the aid of a few 

 creepers. Several plants mentioned for No. 1 would 

 also be suitable in this plan. The tennis ground 

 is again shown, with a back-garden entrance in the 

 outside corner. 



The object .aimed at in both of these plans has 

 been to avoid any uniformity or strict formality, any 

 repetition being avoided in the designs as much as 

 possible, to give as great a diversity as could well be 

 secured in gardens of such limited extent. We must 

 leave for the present the enumeration of such suitable 

 trees, shrubs, herbaceous and other plants, as will 

 best thrive in suburban and town gardens. 



THE FLOWER GAEDEN. 



By William Wildsmith. 



SITE, STYLE, SOIL, AUD FORMATION OF THE 

 GARDEN. 

 OOME one has said that beauty is really more- 

 O useful than utility. Probably it is so. Measur- 

 ing use by mental and moral, as well as physical 

 considerations, no doubt almost the highest place 

 must be assigned to beauty. The love of flowers is 

 more refining, ennohhng, satisfying, than the love of 

 meat, bread, vegetables, fruits. It is a higher taste, 

 and j'et a purer pleasure, because less utilitarian. 

 Flowers are the choice dessert of life ; the solace of, 

 life-sorrows ; the sweeteners of life's acids. Flowers 

 were late in the order of development. For ages 

 the world was clothed with flowerless vegetation; 

 or, to write more correctly, only those of algae,, 

 mosses, or ferns were hidden in the dense rank 

 greenery of those times. But before man was 

 ushered on the scene, the flowers were prepared in 

 all their brightness and beauty ; and ever since, a 

 hidden link binds the human race in closest bonds of 

 sympathy and affection to the fragrant and beautiful 

 flowers. They are the first ambition of babyhood ; 

 the last thing the old and the sorrowful lose their 

 hold of. Hence our desire to make each flower 

 garden, whether it decks a cottage or adorns a 

 palace, larger and yet more beautiful. 



Flower gardening, pure and simple, as dis- 

 tinguished not only from pleasure-grounds and 

 landscape gardening, but apart also from the Rose 

 garden, is the subject we purpose treating of, alike 



