A PUBLIC HOKTICULTURAL GARDEN. 



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development. The Hawthorn, white and red flowering, and other upright- 

 growing plants can be used for supports. 



Herbaceous. 



The two natural gardens in the low corners of the grounds are for 

 herbaceous plants. The style of formation is better in many ways than 

 the square-line shape usually adopted. It is preferable for a botanical 

 collection, as each figure can be suited, in size and curvature, to the 

 growing of large or small plants, or large or small collections of plants ; 

 and the figures arranged to form any sequence desired. 



The second herbaceous garden is to be used chiefly for hardy bulbs, 

 for when rare bulbs are grown amongst other plants they are often the 

 losers. 



The Alpine or Rock garden, so delightful to everyone who knows it, 

 when placed on an island, as shown in this plan, afibrds great facility for 

 diversification. 



The lowest lake would be a kind of fairy lake, with its seven islands, 

 numerous promontories and recesses, properly developed by planting. 



Water. 



Water is necessary in every fully developed landscape. It gives place 

 for beauties far beyond any produced by other diversification of land. 

 The natural character, however, must be maintained. No artificial 

 technical forms, shaped like puddings, milldams, or other mad excres- 

 cences, will ever give the infinite beauty of Nature. The landscape artist 

 must know the principles of natural undulations, and he will then find it 

 easy, and not expensive, to lay out water as shown in this plan. 



In these notes I have pointed out only the leading features of the 

 plan. By a careful examination, various other effects can readily be seen, 

 and in arranging such a garden very many more can be developed upon 

 the fifty acres. The trees and shrubs in the boundaries rise from grass 

 undulations, large or small, according to the wants of the development ; 

 small trees shading the walks give a dark, rich character, full of repose. 

 The gardens of flowers, as shown, are as settings of jewels in the lights 

 and shades of vegetation, and amidst the all-embracing infinities of the 

 sky and water effects. 



The work of the landscape artist is like that of the painter in this 

 respect : the fixing of one form or colour properly provides, at once, 

 places for many others. 



