SUBTJKBAN GARDENING. 



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Strawber, 



■which we have allowed sufficient ground, pro- 

 vided guard-nets are used at the margins where 

 coming somewhat too close up to the herders of the 

 shruhs. In the event of no such games heing 

 required, we would advise the addition of a few.heds 

 of the choicer ^ 



Ehododendrons 

 and other dwarf, 

 or comparatively 

 dwarf, perma- 

 nent kind of 

 plants, in prefer- 

 ence to marking 

 out any set de- 

 sign of flower- 

 heds for tender 

 plants, which at 

 the hest only 

 last in heauty for 

 a few months. 

 Plants of a per- 

 manent charac- 

 ter, although in- 

 volving a trifling 

 increase in out- 

 lay at the first, 

 will soon recoup 

 themselves both 

 in the amount of 

 lahour expended 

 on them, and 

 in the saving 

 eifected in the 

 non-purchase of 

 tender hedding 

 plants for filling 

 flower-heds dur- 

 ing the summer 

 months. 



We have given 

 the plan as pre- 

 senting an en- 

 trance front 

 facing the east, 

 with sufficient 

 allowance for a 

 carriage-drive to 

 the front door, 



with gates for ingress and egress, which will he 

 found far more convenient than one gate only for 

 both purposes, with the consequent occupation of a 

 sufficient space for the turning round of any con- 

 veyance that may enter. On this front we would 

 advise a few tall trees or shrubs opposite the front 

 door, to screen the same from the road. A Copper 

 Beech would look well as a central plant if flanked 



Wall for Pears 



Herbs, t£c. 



Scale 36 Ft. to I Inch. 

 Fig. 3.— Plan or Gabdeit fob Detached Eesidbhce, 



by evergreens, and one or two Laburnums wouldl 

 present a beautiful contrast to the Beech when they 

 are in flower. A narrow margin next the grass, and 

 in front of the shrubs, might be planted with the 

 hardiest of flowering plants, such as the common 



white Pink, Lon- 

 don Pride, or 

 similar dwarf 

 plants of a per- 

 manent char- 

 acter. On the 

 north-east side 

 the space allotted 

 for shrubs should 

 be somewhat 

 elevated ground, 

 to act as a screen, 

 from east winds, 

 to the portion 

 marked out for 

 hardy ferns and 

 rock plants. We 

 have made a 

 rather prominent, 

 feature of these 

 for that spot, 

 where they 

 would succeed 

 well with a mo- 

 derate amount of 

 attention, being 

 shaded by the 

 house from the 

 noonday sun, and 

 partially pro^ 

 tected on the 

 north also from 

 cold weather by 

 the spaces shown 

 as for shrubs in 

 that direction. 

 Against the 

 north wall of the 

 building we 

 show a narrow 

 border to be 

 planted with 

 Morello Cherries, 

 in which position they ought to succeed very well. On 

 the south-east side of the house we have marked off 

 a rather large space for shrubs, the intention being- 

 to protect the east end of the small conservatory and 

 the flower-beds from cold winds, as well as to shut 

 off the back entrance to the house itself as much as- 

 possible ; this piece of ground also would be all the 

 better in appearance if raised above the surrounding- 



