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same principle as the open lawn ; that is, with trees and shrubs having 
striking foliage or showy flowers, and with a judicious mixture of ever- 
greens to give the effect of cheerfulness in winter. In the water are 
two large plants of Calla sethidpica L in., which cover a space of nearly 
5 ft. in diameter ; they have lived there through ten winters without any 
protection, the water being 5 ft. deep ; and they flower luxuriantly every 
year. The views across the water, to the house and to the other parts of 
the grounds, are singularly varied, owing to the winding direction of the 
walk, and the consequently changing position of the island, and of the 
trees in the foreground and middle distance. One of these views may be 
seen in Fig. 19, and others have been already given in p. 455, 471, 473, 
483. 
The Flower-Garden (25, in Fig. 13, in p. 476, 477,) is laid out, as the 
ground plan indicates, in beds, everywhere bordered with slate : a flower- 
garden of this kind, with the walks gravelled, having the advantage of 
rendering the flowers accessible to ladies immediately after rain, when 
they are often in their greatest beauty, and, at all events, in their great- 
est freshness ahd vigour ; an advantage which is not obtained when the 
beds are on turf. There are also flower-beds on turf in other parts of 
the grounds : but these are filled with roses, dahlias, and other large- 
growing plants in masses, the beauties of which do not require to be 
closely examined. 
III. 
Note on the treatment of Lawns. 
As a lawn is the ground work of a landscape garden, and as the man- 
agement of a dressed grass surface is still a somewhat ill-understood sub- 
ject with us, some of our readers will, perhaps, be glad to receive a very 
few hints on this subject. 
The unrivalled beauty of the “ velvet lawns” of England has passed 
into a proverb. This is undoubtedly owing, in some measure, to their 
superior care and keeping, but mainly to the highly favourable climate of 
that moist and sea-girt land. In a very dry climate it is nearly impos- 
sible to preserve that emerald freshness in a grass surface, that be- 
longs only to a country of “ weeping skies.” During all the present sea- 
