SEPTEMBER 8. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
433 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
M 
D 
n 
w 
Weather near London in 
1852. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R. & S. 
, 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
af. Sun. 
-- 
SEPTEMBER 8—14, 1853. 
Barometer. 
Thermo. 
Wind. 
llain in 
Inches. 
Day of 
Year. 
8 
Ta 
Flame Shoulder; weedy b. 
29 982—29.951 
68—58 
E. 
14 
25 a. 5 
30 a. 6 
8 49 
5 
2 28 
251 
9 
F 
Treble Lines; woods. 
29.926—29.859 
09—59 
N.E. 
09 
27 
23 
9 18 
6 
2 49 
252 
10 
S 
September Horn. 
29.907—29.822 
69—49 
N.E. 
10 
29 
25 
9 58 
) 
3 10 
253 
li 
Son 
16 Sunday after Trinity. 
29.862—29.826 
67—45 
N.W. 
— 
30 
23 
10 51 
8 
3 30 
254 
12 
M 
Sprawler; paling. 
2g.925—29.848 
68—42 
N. 
— 
32 
21 
11 58 
9 
3 51 
255 
IS 
To 
Mouse; gardens. 
29-937—29.89b 
67 —46 
N. 
— 
33 
18 
morn. 
10 
4 12 
256 
14 
W 
Brixton Beauty; trees. 
29-947—29.788 
6.3—46 
N.W. 
07 
35 
16 
1 12 
n 
4 33 
557 
Mkteorology of the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations 
heat, 84°, occurred on the 12th in 1843 ; and thelowestcold. 31°. on the 
during the last twenty-six years, the average highest and lowesttem- 
peratures of these days are '6 7 . 7 ° and 47.6° respectively. The greatest 
7 th m 
fell. 
1850. During the period 107 days were fine, and on 
75 rain 
FLOWER-GARDEN PLANS.—No. 9 
H H 
A. Fountains. 
b. Grass. 
c. Gravel. 
d. Flower-beds, and d.w., ditto. 
e. Irish Yew, or Juniper, with 
round. 
flowers 
F. Huraea elegans, with flowers round. 
g. Border for choice Rhododendrons. 
H. Rabbit-proof fence, with edge of 
Roses, Jasminum niulijlorum, and 
Mahon ia aquifolium. 
x. Box edgings. 
t. Dining-room, 
o. Drawing-room 
u. Morning-room, 
w. Conservatory. 
The gardener who sent to us the above plan accompanied 
it with this note :—“ I am aware you cannot speak of its 
adaptation to this, or any other place, unless you were upon 
the spot; but, perhaps, you 'would favour me with your 
criticisms of it, as a plan for the front of a large square 
house, in the Italian style, surrounded with a beautiful 
woody country of hill and dale, with a good distant view 
of the far-famed Malvern Hills. If you think it will he of 
any service to your readers, you can make what use of it 
you please. Any remarks in your notice to correspondents 
will oblige." 
Here is an excellent design for an Italian Terrace-garden 
on English soil, with a bold rap to Sir Joseph Paxton him¬ 
self, in the conception of the three fountains on the same 
level, across the centre of the figure. The two end foun¬ 
tains, however, are not quite in the situation where Sir 
Joseph would place them, for he studied the subject in 
Italy itself. They ought to stand in the middle of the end 
walks, so as to be directly in front of the visitor on entering 
the garden from the dining-room corner, or the corner by 
the conservatory. A sharp critic, standing at one of these 
corners, for the first time, and that end fountain at work 
where it now stands, would sing out, “ Here is a pig with 
one ear to begin with;” and once the first note of pre¬ 
paration is set on a wTong key, the rest of the plan, or 
tune, may be thrown out of joint at the will of the wily 
i critic. In defence of things as they are, we might insist on 
it that the key note starts from the drawing-room window, 
o, from whence the three fountains are well balanced. 
Granted; but when we enter a regularly set-off figure like 
this, the same balance must accompany each view to the 
farthest corner; everything must be in match pairs, else 
the principle of regularity, on which the garden is inarmed, 
is violated. Beds, fountains, standard plants, Aloes, or 
any other objects, may bo in pairs, or in as many duplicates 
as there is room for in a terrace-garden, or any garden in 
No. CCLVIII, Vol. X. 
