GARDEN SCENERY. 
As we recently took advantage of a very pleasing notice of an estate which is 
ell known to us, in order to incite planters and layers-out of grounds to adopt a 
.ethod of systematic arrangement which offers great advantages ; so on the present 
•casion we appeal to another account of a very beautiful garden that merits the 
Mention of every amateur of taste possessing moderate affluence. Both the 
iginal descriptions were from the pen of the late Mr. Loudon, and we cannot offer 
better testimonial of grateful feeling to his memory than by endeavouring to 
| remote the object of his labours. 
At page 124, vol. x. of his “ Gardener’s Magazine,” commences the “ Descriptive 
r otice of the garden of Bishopstoke Vicarage.” Thirteen years have elapsed since 
lat notice was penned, and vast alterations have subsequently occurred, both 
1 science and practice. But what was pure taste then, cannot have changed 
s character now ; and the following remarks are therefore offered with confi- 
ence. 
Two very beautiful and illustrative cuts precede and accompany the numbered 
atalogues of the erections, trees, and plants which are given in several of the 
itroductory pages, and to these we must refer the reader. Our chief object will 
e an attempted explanation of the rationale of the practical remarks which are 
ppended to the lists. 
The estate itself, or place, as it was termed, comprised an acre or two, situated 
n a bank facing the south. The garden or pleasure-ground, of an irregular figure, 
pproaching to an oblong, gracefully rounded on the eastern end, encompassed with 
rees of choicest character, and enriched with upwards of 250 groups, or single 
pecimens 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- 
eresting gleams of distant scenery, seen between and over fine oaks and elms, on 
he 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 
housands 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 
lecorated and “ kept ” to a point of surpassing, simple elegance, at little risk or 
rest. 
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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