52 
A PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION. 
It is pleasant thus to be enabled to compare tbe simplicity of gar¬ 
dening in tbe reign of our “ Gyeat Fdizabeth,” with tbe present 
“ high and palmy state ” of horticulture. The above description too, 
well corroborates that admirable remark with which the essay com¬ 
mences;—“When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to 
build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the 
greater perfection.” Our palaces and cathedrals are extant proofs of 
the admirable state of architecture, at tbe time that our earliest works 
on gardening show the poverty and scantiness of contemporary 
horticulture. 
The glorious writer of the above has likewise proved, that his 
ideas on gardening—as on every other subject—were high above, 
and far beyond, the times in which he lived : for why should he 
write a dissertation and form plans, unless the taste and practise in 
gardening were in a state to require his assistance ? 
Dec ember 1 5th, 1833. 
ARTICLE II.—A PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION, 
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 
RENDERING A QUARTER OF AN ACRE OF LAND VERY PLEASURABLE 
AND EXCEEDINGLY PROFITABLE; 
And of converting an intolerable Nuisance into a means of promoting both, at a small Expense. 
BY J. D. 
Within an oblong piece of ground, fifty-two yards long, by twenty- 
three yards wide, '(about a quarter of an acre,) situated in a village 
five miles from London, is my dwelling-place, to which a small sta¬ 
ble is attached. The house stands at the north-east, and the stable 
at the south-east angles of the ground, the longitudinal direction of 
the whole being due north and south, the house fronting north, and 
only a few' yards from a public road. Other part of the ground, at 
the back of the house,"is occupied by a court yard, and a yard is at¬ 
tached to the stable, which is also the drying ground for linen, the 
former separated from the gardens by a trellis fence, and the latter 
by a dipt hornbeam hedge, used for the drying of clothes. The re¬ 
mainder of the ground is divided into three portions of gardens for 
pleasure, for fruit, and for vegetables, and yet, though perfectly dis¬ 
tinct, the three group only as one. The whole plot is bounded by 
brick walls, averaging about two yards and a half in height, except 
in front of the house, which is a palisade fence, and except also a 
piece of wall about twelve yards in length, which is six yards high. 
