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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
(about three weeks or a month,) the bed should be kept rather dry than 
otherwise, and this to prepare the bulbs to enter on their summer rest. 
The next bed to be noticed is that appropriated to anemones; but the 
management of this is so similar in every respect to that detailed of the 
ranunculus, that nothing further need be added as particularly appli¬ 
cable to the anemone. The tubers are planted in the last week of 
October—are defended from severe frost in winter—are watered, if 
necessary, before, and shaded when in dower. After dowering, and 
when the foliage is dying off, the bed is kept dry ; and about a month 
after the bloom, the tubers are taken up and stored. 
Besides these beds, many of the same kinds of bulbs and tubers, as 
well as polyanthus and narcissus, are planted in pots for going into the 
greenhouse, and in patches in different parts of the dower-garden and 
other spots of the pleasure-ground. A collection of choice auriculas is 
also kept in pots, and generally occupies the shelves under the shelter 
of the ivied trellis before mentioned. 
The foregoing memorandums of practical doriculture, which I have 
picked up from time to time, may not, perhaps, be very interesting to 
you ; but wishing you to share with me in every thing which now so 
entirely engrosses my attention, and which, moreover, makes up a 
principal part of my daily gratidcation, I could do no less than note 
them down for your information. 
My pen has given but a very faint idea of the principal features of 
the dower-garden ; indeed, without the aid of a faithful pencil, it is 
impossible to convey any just impression of the bland and varied beau¬ 
ties of this interesting spot. But let us leave it for other scenes. The 
left-hand branch of the leading walk, passing by the dower-beds we 
have just been noticing, leads to the end of a dnely secluded and shady 
walk between two ranks of lime-trees ( Tilia Europcea), planted about 
thirty feet apart, and whose arms are intermingled over head. They 
form a short avenue, terminated by an ornamented trellis, forming an 
alcove over a seat. The trees stand upon mossy turf, and their columnar 
boles are backed by dense masses of evergreen trees and shrubs, which, 
while they render the walk perfectly secluded, add a pleasing kind of 
quiet stillness, particularly suited to the contemplative mind. As a 
summer-walk, when the heat of the sun is oppressive, this must be 
delightful; and as a contrast to the cheerful brightness of the flower- 
garden, nothing can be more pleasing, as affording repose to the eye as 
well as the mind. If this avenue were longer, it would be less pleas¬ 
ing; but its disposition being the prototype, it has all the air and 
grandeur of the middle aisle of a cathedral, and all that imposing kind 
