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A PLAN OF A DUTCH GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE. 
A PLAN OF A DUTCH GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE. 
By Mr. JOHN COX, Gardener to W. Wells, Esq., Bedleaf. 
$f!HE subjoined plan is a modification of the ground plan of the Dutch greenhouse and garden at 
11 Redleaf; and as it affords many facilities, not only for the production of effect, hut also for a great 
diversity and choice of plants, it has occurred to me as being an eligible subject for the Magazine of 
Botany. The chief interest, and indeed beauty, of these kind of gardens, is peculiarly intrinsic ; they 
possess no features by -which they can be moulded into a combination with natural scenery, and, 
therefore, are only appropriate as accompaniments to architectural embellishment; or to be placed in 
some warm secluded nook, where the boundary (to be presently remarked upon) may legitimately 
form a portion of the general scenery, without offending the taste by placing the extreme artificial 
in juxta-position with the purely natural. The form of the boundary, marked in the plan No. 1, must 
be determined by circumstances. If only a square plot is to be operated upon, and the exterior is of no 
moment, it may be a border bounded by a conservative wall for choice climbing plants and Roses; 
or, if room will serve, it may be a low wall, with iron palisading, and the border planted with ever¬ 
green and deciduous shrubs; but, if it is placed in any part where a formal boundary is inadmissible, 
I would have it formed of Azaleas, Andromedas, Rhododendrons, and other American plants in com¬ 
bination. The interior line being, of course, quite straight, the exterior may be varied in a multitude 
