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GARDEN SCENERY. 
As we recently took advantage of a very pleasing notice of an estate which is 
well known to us, in order to incite planters and layers-out of grounds to adopt a 
method of systematic arrangement which offers great advantages ; so on the present 
occasion we appeal to another account of a very beautiful garden that merits the 
attention of every amateur of taste possessing moderate affluence. Both the 
original descriptions were from the pen of the late Mr. Loudon, and we cannot offer 
a better testimonial of grateful feeling to his memory than by endeavouring to 
promote the object of his labours. 
At page 124, vol. x. of his " Gardener's Magazine," commences the u Descriptive 
Notice of the garden of Bishopstoke Vicarage." Thirteen years have elapsed since 
that notice was penned, and vast alterations have subsequently occurred, both 
in science and practice. But what was pure taste then, cannot have changed 
its character now ; and the following remarks are therefore offered with confi- 
dence. 
Two very beautiful and illustrative cuts precede and accompany the numbered 
catalogues of the erections, trees, and plants which are given in several of the 
introductory pages, and to these we must refer the reader. Our chief object will 
be an attempted explanation of the rationale of the practical remarks which are 
appended to the lists. 
The estate itself, or place, as it was termed, comprised an acre or two, situated 
on a bank facing the south. The garden or pleasure-ground, of an irregular figure, 
approaching to an oblong, gracefully rounded on the eastern end, encompassed with 
trees of choicest character, and enriched with upwards of 250 groups, or single 
specimens of the finest American shrubs and the select trees, the whole constituting 
" a perfect gem of botanical beauty in the foreground, heightened in effect by in- 
teresting gleams of distant scenery, seen between and over fine oaks and elms, on 
the lower part of the declivity." 
Such a spot may be compassed by the means of any tasteful person of very 
moderate income. A great place—of which Britain above all the world contains 
thousands of examples — belongs only to the affluent ; and while it commands ad- 
miration, is subject to many alloys that neutralise its pleasure-bestowing qualities. 
But an acre or two, having a neat and commodious dwelling-house upon it, can be 
decorated and "kept" to a point of surpassing, simple elegance, at little risk or 
cost. 
The first imposing object noticed by Mr. Loudon on his entering the grounds 
was a Magnolia grandiflora, 27 feet high, and about 25 feet wide, thus occupying a 
space of 275 square feet ; and yet this magnificent tree had been moved in the 
month of August, twelve years before, without sustaining any injury; "the reason 
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