CONTENTS. 



FAGK 



Buildings 323 



Covered seats 328 



Arches or gateways 329 



Hot-houses 329 



CHAP. II. Of the principles of selection and arrangement in ornamental gardening 330 



The selection of single objects 330 



The exhibition of objects collectively 330 



Arrangement and grouping effects this last purpose 331 



Botanical arrangement.... 331 



Arrangement with a view to culture 331 



The arrangement universal in nature .. 331 



Artificial borderings..... 333 



Grouping 335 



CHAP. III. Of the subjects of ornamental gardening. 



Parterres, or flower gardens 337 



A general parterre... 338 



A winter garden, or parterre 339 



A spring garden, or parterre 340 



An autumn garden 340 



A parterre of bulbous roots 341 



Gardens of different kinds of flowers 341 



An ancient British flower garden 341 



Modern British flower gardens 342 



Chinese, Grecian, Roman, Dutch and French gardens, or 



parterres s 342 



A small botanic garden, or botanic parterre.. 343 



Hot-houses 343 



Stoves — green-houses 344 



Conservatories 346 



Conservatories, and also vineries, may be united to man- 

 sions, and heated by the fires of the rooms 347 



Small groups of shrubs and flowers 349 



Dug patches may easily be made to assume the appearance 



of natural groups. 350 



Shrubberies 352 



Pleasure grounds 353 



