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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Ociobee 20, 1857. 
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here find a home. There were great masses 
bloom of the purple Impatiens glandulifera, which has 
here been fully acclimatised, sowing itself e *fl 
and fine masses of the autumn Asters and the Golden 
Rod (Solidago), &c. _ 
Anon, we get back to the green terrace, but this time 
south of the staircase and Yew-shaded bed, ana find 
that the Fuchsia hedges and Savin beds correspond with 
the other side. There is no break, however, m the line 
as in the block bank, but the farther end is devoted to 
a bank of Dahlias, and opposite to them are different 
styles of flower gardening. In fact, the whole space 
inclosed between about a quarter of a mile of this wide 
grass terrace and the side of the panel gardens which 
we have just left, is devoted to a series of different 
gardens, which it would take many hours fu y o 
examine and a pamphlet to describe. I must content 
myself with giving you a glance, as that was pretty well 
all I could manage for myself. 
Instead, then, of going along the terrace we cross 
diagonally an undulated lawn, passing under the branches 
of a fine old Oak, not lofty, but the circle of its head 
about eighty feet in diameter, and onwards to a bwiss- 
Italian summer-house, built chiefly with unpeeled fii 
poles, colonnaded at both ends with similar fir 
poles, covered with Virginian Creeper, Clematis, wild 
Roses, &c. It is graced with flower baskets too; but 
these are rough uupeeled willow. A narrow flowei 
border it has, with wild flowers and Nasturtiums 
crawling over it, and edged again with rough young 
trees lying longitudinally. There are large wide arches 
at either end connecting the whole with other parts, 
and these are each formed by four unbarked trees fixed 
perpendicularly in the ground, and two similar ones laid 
horizontally across their tops, thus forming a double 
flat archway, and over these poles clambered and 
festooned Gourds and Pumpkins, with plenty of fruit 
hanging from them, presenting altogether a fine com¬ 
bination of simplicity and suitability. 
A little eastwards of this is the rosary, open, I think, 
on that side of the lawn, but on the farther side bounded 
by a walk doubly arched for climbing Roses, each arch 
that crosses the walk being joined by one that makes a 
similar arch on each side of the walk longitudinally. 
This brings us close to the conservatory ornamental 
wall, a very striking feature, as giving the advantage of 
fine conservatory plants without any glass being seen in 
summer. The wall is divided into separate equal spaces 
by stone pilasters, and each of these spaces is intended 
for a single plant. The side of the wall on which we 
are now standing faces the south-west, the opposite side 
the south-east. The border in front of it is about four 
feet wide, bounded by a stone plinth. Observing some 
round knobs on the top of the plinth at regular distances 
Mr. Foggo pulled one up, and it was at once seen to be 
a wooden plug temporarily filling one of the sockets that 
receive the upright studs that support the wall plate and 
sashes, there being also upright glass in front. All this 
is removed as soon as it is deemed safe in the spring, 
and the principal thing to be attended to is the securing 
plants that bloom best in summer. The wall is hollow, 
and heated by hot-water pipes. The plants between the 
panels were such as these :—Citrons, Magnolia, Cassia 
corymbosa, still young; Cloth of Gold Rose, Plumbago 
Capensis, Rose Malmaison, Begonia fuchsioides, Tacsonia 
pinnatistipula , Passijlora car idea, &c.; fine plants of a 
seedling Acacia in the way of juniperina, but not in 
bloom; and great masses of Lophospermum, Maurandya, 
&c., as temporary plants. Rut the two great lions on the 
wall were a Buddlea Lindleyana, filling the whole of its 
allotted space, some ten or twelve square feet, with a 
dense mass of its violet purple flowers; the other was 
a Mandevilla suaveolens in the highest health and vigour, 
and loaded in every part with its wreaths of white 
blossom. Among other nice little things in the border 
were fine specimens of China Asters that would have 
ranked among the first at the Crystal Palace. 
On the south-east side of the wall were such plants ! 
as Fuchsia coralina, and Fuchsia Duchess of Lancaster, 
Lardizabala Uternata, Abelia fioribunda, Dolichos 
lignosus, Ceanotlius dentatus, C. azureus (the best of the j 
group), Erythrina crista-galli, &c. 
The border next the stone kerb was edged with Golden j 
Chain, backed by blue Lobelia speciosa, with patches of 
L. ramosa, scarlet Lobelia St. Clair, and other things 
dotted over the border. It was chiefly in these borders, 
I believe, that Mr. Beaton proved and experimented so 
much on bulbs as now to be the best authority on their 
affinities and treatment. 
I forgot to mention that some fifteen yards or so from 
the south-west side of this wall is a group of four raised 
angular beds, two large outside and two smaller in the 
centre, the sides being formed of various materials. The 
larger beds were centred with Dahlias, ringed with 
Salvia fulgens, and I forget what^ next; but I allude to 
them for chronicling that round the outside of both was 
a massive wreath of the white thorn-scented Clematis 
flammula. 
I have also forgotten to state that near the Swiss 
summer-house is a large roundish bed, divided into a 
group by paths of Ivy, a new idea so far as I am 
aware. 
In front, or close to the south-east side of this con¬ 
servatory wall, is the fountain garden. Two gravel 
walks passiug each other at right angles divide the cir¬ 
cular outline into four equal divisions, the fountain 
being placed as an elevated basin in the central point of 
junction. After a circle of gravel the first circle is planted 
with Fuchsia globosa ; another larger circle is occupied 
with the Mountain of Light Geranium, with the flovvers 
picked off’to give a white ground. Each of these four 
divisions is now divided into seven rays, going from this 
white centre to the circumference, and are thus ar¬ 
ranged:—1st row white. 2. Purple. 3. Pink. 4. Yellow. 
5. Blue. 6. Scarlet. 7. White. Now, if some of us 
common gardeners had twenty-eight of these long ray 
beds to fill, and managed to get them all uniform as 
to height and effectiveness, we should be apt to look 
as satisfied as some orators do when they imagine they 
have uttered something very telling and clever; but 
that accomplished would not involve a tithe of the fore¬ 
thought and observation requisite for carrying out 
thoroughly the ideas seemingly contemplated in this 
fountain garden. Not only is there a division of grass 
between each ray longitudinally, but each ray is again 
divided by concentric grass paths into three beds, so far 
as I recollect, and for the purpose of carrying out two 
ideas. The first, that each ray should be somewhat 
shaded, the lightest tint being next the Mountain of 
Light, the deepest at the circumference bed. The 
second idea, that the inner beds should be lowest, and 
the same in height all round, the second higher, and 
ditto, and the circumference bed the highest of all, but 
equal all round. Mr. Foggo stated that some of his 
beds were too high for their neighbours, and for the 
grass divisions between them, which would be remedied 
next year. The garden was very interesting, and 
suggestive of many thoughts, which for the present 
must remain thoughts ; but, beautiful as it is, I have no 
doubt it will be more beautiful and symmetrical every 
year as the notes and memoranda of the planter in¬ 
crease. 
One of the two dividing walks of this fountain garden 
continues in a direct line southwards, guarded on each 
side by fine columns of Cypresses until you come to the 
hanging-basket garden, which may be described as a 
large airy arbour, with a huge box suspended in the 
centre, filled with scarlet Geraniums, and the beds at 
