LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
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impetuous vertically, and hence the centre of the tree is filled with 
strong barren shoots; whereas those branches which are led away from 
the perpendicular, having a more moderate growth, are consequently 
more fruitful. The length of clear stem up which the rising sap must 
flow, is also considered inductive of a slower motion of the current ; 
and hence a diminished quantity is received into the branches, causing 
also additional fertility. 
The wall is pretty well covered with these trees; and when the 
flowers are defended from frost by small twigs of yew or silver fir, 
generally yield great crops of green thinnings for baking, and ripe for 
the table, jam, and preserves. 
The border is but lightly cropped. The earliest transplanted peas 
are always raised close under the wall, and the open part of the border 
is cropped first with radish, lettuce, and other salad plants, and after¬ 
ward with dwarf kidney-beans. 
The principal entrance into the garden is by an old-fashioned iron 
gate at the bottom, from whence the first view of the whole is very 
imposing. The middle walk, as well as the general surface of the 
garden, is regularly, though gently, acclivous; and all the longitudinal 
lines of walls, walks, and espalier rails, being perspectively converging 
to the centre of the vinery, presents such an orderly display of regu¬ 
larity as cannot fail to gratify the eye, while it exhibits the beauty of 
order. In this picture the hot-houses are the principal object, and are 
seen to great advantage from the iron gate. The upper windows of the 
gardener’s house are just seen over the vinery, and its hipped roof forms 
a fine apex to the whole range of glass. Add to this the fine back¬ 
ground of lofty trees, which on all sides appear to embrace, without 
shading, and shelter, without suppressing, the garden from every wind 
that blows. 
As the garden is neither on the highest nor on the lowest part of the 
sloping ridge on which the house and all its accompaniments are placed, 
the situation is well chosen. Had it been on the summit, it would 
have been too much exposed to the fury of winds from all quarters; 
and had it been placed in a low and dank valley, colder air and sharper 
frost would have often cut off or retarded the tender firstlings of the 
year. As the coldest air always slides down a declivous surface, the 
lowest situations are consequently constantly the coldest; even the 
lower end of the garden I am describing is always more chilly than 
the upper end; and were it not that the palisade gate at the bottom 
allows the fleece of cold air to escape out, it would be much more and 
injuriously so. Whether an open-work gate was preferred for this 
station, as an outlet for frosty air, is uncertain; but it is a lucky inci- 
