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iarly in the summer season. They should be placed in irregu- 

 lar groups and thickets, of different sizes, gliding into one 

 another on smooth lawn, beautifully varied, and broken into 

 small, confined scenes, by trees and shrubs of the most elegant 

 sorts. Throughout the whole, smooth gravel walks should wind 

 in a graceful, easy manner. In such a garden, the green- 

 house and stoves for exotic plants and trees may be placed. 

 In summer, those which are reared in the green-house may 

 be dispersed throughout the garden; and the pots being 

 sunk in the earth, the plants will appear as natives; or they 

 may be arranged in a situation by themselves, and retain 

 their own character; and, during this season, the house may 

 be filled with balsams, coxcombs, amaranths, and other ten- 

 der annuals. A few elegant seats, both covered and unco- 

 vered, may be introduced ; but no grottoes, urns, busts, nor 

 temples; which have all their proper places in ornamental 

 scenery, but which, as I have formerly remarked, are unsuita- 

 ble to this scene. 



2. A winter garden should contain such trees, shrubs, plants, 

 &c. as are in perfection, or retain their verdure, during this 

 season ; such as most of the evergreen tribe ; and several 

 flowering plants, as aconite, Christmas-rose, &c. They should 

 be grouped and arranged in the natural manner, and a dry 



