•242 rut: PLEASURE GROUND, 



THE FLOWER GARDENS. 



The accompanying Plate, No. 4, is a represen- 

 tation of a Flower Garden, wherein are cultivated 

 various species of flowering plants and bulbs, in 

 order to preserve as constant a succession of blos- 

 som in front of the Libraries, as the season will 

 admit. The entire row of hexagon beds in the centre, 

 is enclosed with a stone curb, on which are inserted 

 wrought iron basket edgings, which rise together 

 with the stone-work about 9 inches above the graveh 

 The other smaller, or semi-hexagonal beds, have all 

 simple cast iron edgings. The intervening space is 

 kept neatly gravelled, which extends to the outer 

 line of the Terrace, which is on an elevation about 

 10 feet above the Park level, towards which it is 

 faced with rusticated stone-work, corresponding in 

 character with the basement story of the Abbey. 

 The west end of the Terrace is enclosed with a balus- 

 trade, and the south side by a handsome gilt trellis, 

 which extends nearly as far as the Library, when 

 it connects with an iron fence, that branches off 

 around half the circuit of the Pleasure Ground. 



The wide space that intervenes between the Li- 

 brary windows, and the line next to the flower- 

 beds, consists of a flag pavement, which furnishes at 

 all seasons a dry and clean promenade. 



The Flower Garden, No. 2, opposite to these pri- 

 vate apartments, was laid out according to the taste- 



