THEIR GENERAL ARRANGEMENT, &c. 



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We think this has, however, a very mono- 

 tonous appearance, and must ever be far 

 inferior in brilliancy of effect compared 

 with such plants as scarlet verbenas, 

 yellow lasthenias, blue Lobelias, &c. 



Fig. 841 is a parterre-garden in the 

 same style, but of a different pattern. 

 The principal walks, as in the last ex- 



842. 



ample, should be of gravel, with dwarf 

 box edgings. The longitudinal figures, 

 with semicircular ends at the two oppo- 

 site sides, should be margined with a turf 

 edging, and at these sides the entrance 

 and exit walks should be placed. In the 

 case of the marginal borders in this 

 figure, we have given four different pat- 

 terns, either of which may 

 be continued all round, as 

 in the former example, or 

 each pattern may form a 

 side, their planting and ar- 

 rangement being similar 

 to fig. 840. 



Fig. 842 is a circular 

 garden in the geometrical 

 style. The beds, as will be 

 seen by the sectional line, 

 are considerably elevated 

 in the middle. The figures 

 are cut out on grass, with 

 a boundary walk of gravel. 

 Such a garden as this 

 would make a very com- 

 plete whole ; but, from its 

 figure, it is better adapted 

 for a lawn at some distance 

 from the house, as, having 

 no straight sides, there 

 would be a want of con- 

 nection between it and the 

 buildings. 



Figs. 843, 844, 845, were 

 laid out in the Royal Gar- 

 dens at Bagshot Park by 

 Mr Toward. They were 

 cut out on a turf surface, 

 and surrounded with grass 

 lawns. The prevailing style 

 at Bagshot was many small 

 gardens of this sort scat- 

 tered through the grounds, 

 instead of having a com- 

 bination in one place of 

 greater magnitude. From 

 the circumstances of the 

 place, this was, no doubt, 

 the most judicious sys- 

 tem that could have been 

 followed, as there was 

 nothing architectural or 

 upon a grand scale in the 

 grounds. Towards the 

 centre of fig. 843, a portion 

 of grass of irregular form 

 was introduced, and the 



