340 ORNAMENTAL GARDENING. BOOK I. 



gravel walk should be conducted throughout the whole. This 

 garden should be situated near the mansion, in order that it 

 may be conveniently and comfortably approached in the winter 

 months. In it the conservatory should be placed. 



3. A spring garden should contain all those deciduous shrubs 

 and trees which blossom or put forth leaves the most early in 

 the spring, such as the almond, mezerion, fringe tree, &c. &c. 

 All the early-blowing flowers, both of the bulbous and fibrous- 

 rooted kinds, as the narcissus, crocus, iris, cowslip, auricula, 

 hepatica, &c. The walks should be of gravel, and little or no 

 lawn should appear. 



This garden may contain a house for heaths, auriculas, and 

 other early-flowering plants. It should be placed near the for- 

 mer one, and connected with it and the mansion by a comfort- 

 able gravel walk, that they may be approached at any season. 

 The soils of both should be light and dry, the situations well 

 exposed to the sun, and sheltered from the northern blast. 



4. An autumn garden should contain such a collection of or- 

 namental plants and trees as are in perfection at this season ; 

 such as most annual flowers when late sown ; many herbaceous 

 plants, as aster, solidago, Sec; and several trees and shrubs 



