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■whicli we have allowed sufficient ground, pro- 

 vided guard-nets are used at the margins where 

 coming somewhat too close up to the borders of the 

 shrubs. In the event of no such games being 

 required, we would advise the addition of a few beds 

 of the choicer 

 Rhododendrons 

 and other dwarf, 

 or comparatively 

 dwarf, perma- 

 nent kind of 

 plants, in prefer- 

 ence to marking 

 out any set de- 

 sign of flower- 

 beds for tender 

 plants, which at 

 the best only 

 last in beauty for 

 a few months. 

 Plants of a per- 

 manent charac- 

 ter, although in- 

 ^•olving a trifling 

 Increase in out- 

 lay at the first, 

 will soon recoup 

 themselves both 

 in the amount of 

 labour expended 

 on them, and 

 in the saving 

 effected in the 

 non-purchase of 

 tender bedding- 

 plants for filling 

 flower-beds dur- 

 ing the summer 

 months. 



We have given 

 the plan as pre- 

 senting an en- 

 trance front 

 facing the east^ 

 with sufiicient 

 allowance for a 

 carriage-drive to 

 the front door, 



with gates for ingress and egress, which will be 

 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 



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by evergreens, and one or two Laburnums would 

 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 sj)ace 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 pi-otect the east end of the small conservatory and 

 the flower-beds from cold Avinds, 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 



Scale 36 Ft. to I Inch. 



3.— Plan of Garden fok Detached Eesiden'CE 



