THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, October 11, 1859. 
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•upon the ditch thus formed. Were the wall not only sunk, 
but raised a couple of feet or so above the lawn level, a clearly 
defined boundary, ornamental or otherwise, would at once be 
apparent, about which there could be no mistake. Were it 
necessary that the pleasure-grounds should not be more ex¬ 
tended, that at the front of the house might have been widened, 
and less taken in at the eastern end. The fence would then have 
been a ha-ha in earnest; and a few single specimens, and several 
small groups, would have acted as a background, and not in¬ 
terfered with the view of the park. 
Fig. 2. 
Fig. 3. 
Simple mode of showing the grouping of fig. 2, by straight lines instead of 
engraving the clumps. This would convey a better idea than mere de¬ 
scription, and I fear that engraving even rough plans would he ex¬ 
pensive. , 
The reader will follow all this the better, if he will suppose the 
line, fig. 1 , going through the centre of the flower garden, with 
two groups, both the same as fig. 2 , one placed on each side of 
the w r alk, and occupying the space between the boundary walk 
and the grass bank, with a sufficiency of lawn all round them. 
As first made in Mr. Busby’s time, the figure was more artistic, 
there being at least two Prince’s Eeathers with a centre and two 
spreading wings, and it was found difficult at times to get these 
three or four joined figures exactly the same in height. Mr. Pea¬ 
cock has altered the figure into one more simple, and I think more 
telling, just because of its simplicity; and every clump being dis¬ 
tinct in itself, as much variety of colour as possible is thrown in, 
compatible with a cross-balancing system of planting. Each 
group is distinct in itself, and not a reflex of the other. That on 
the west side of the walk is as follows :— 
I. An elegant roundish basin, some two feet and a half in 
height, similar to those shown at Chiswick last season by Seeley, 
with Frpgmore Scarlet ,—the white material of the sides taming 
down the scarlet sufficiently. 
2 . Yellow Calceolaria. 
3. Prince of Orange Calceolaria, 
4. Flower of the Day Geranium. 
5. ditto ditto. 
6 . White Ivy-leaved Geranium, and Mrs. llolford white Ver¬ 
bena mixed. 
7. ditto ditto. 
8 . Putteridge dark Petunia. 
9. Countess of FAlesmere Petunia. 
10. Mangles' Variegated Geranium, and Geant des Batailles 
Verbena, mixed. 
II. Mangles' Geranium, and Model Verbena. 
12. Lobelia speciosa. 
13. Mrs. Parsons Verbena, bluish purple. 
Here, on account of the white centre, &c., 4 and 5, might have 
been Petunias without any disadvantage. The other side was 
thus planted :— 
1. Frogmore Scarlet. 
2. Ariosto Verbena. 
3. Superba Petunia, fine small dark. 
4. Yellow Calceolaria, 
5. ditto. 
6 . Lobelia speciosa. 
7. Miss Nightingale Heliotrope. 
8 . Pink Ivy-leaved Geranium, and variegated Pink, mixed. 
9. ditto. 
10. Golden Chain Geranium. 
11 . ditto. 
12 . Frogmore Improved Scarlet Geranium. 
13. ditto. 
These groups were well done, the beds of one colour being 
more telling than the mixed ones ; and whilst all were fair and 
some very fine, the bed of Ariosto Verbena was the most beauti¬ 
ful and symmetrical bed of that flower I ever saw, and Mr. Pea¬ 
cock told us it grew so almost naturally, with scarcely any assist¬ 
ance in the way of pegging or training. 
The conservative wall is clothed with Magnolias, Bignonias, 
Ceanothuses, Roses, Clematis, &c., and a narrow border in front 
is ribboned, but not thickly, so that the individual plant can be 
seen thus forming a variety in the modes. Opposite the pallisaded 
walls, a row of tall Hollyhocks were grown with Dahlias, Cal¬ 
ceolarias, and Geraniums, and blue Campanula Carpatica and 
Golden Chain in front. In the beginning of September, this 
long row of Campanula was so fine, that we are sure if om- 
friend Mr. Beaton had seen it, he would have owned that it 
could be managed out of Suffolk. 
I have left no room to chronicle matters inside the walls, 
further than to say that Peaches, Nectarines, and Plums were a 
good crop ; that Pears, &c., on dwarf standards this season were 
thin, that a fine espalier plant of the Amzvell-souring Apple is 
about seventy feet in lengl h ; that Pine-Apple plants were healthy 
and productive, and the range of plant-houses well stored with 
gay flowers. This range is as near as may be a model for grow¬ 
ing and showing off plants, and is heated so as have stove plants 
at one end and greenhouse plants in the other half. Width about 
fourteen feet; span roof; height of sides six feet, fully half of glass, 
made to open, and ventilators also in the wall, close to the heat¬ 
ing pipes; roof in two sashes, top one made to slide; shelf on 
two sides, twenty inches wide; pathway three feet, and centre 
flat-table five feet wide, that table being about three feet 
from the floor. Close to these in the same line is another range 
of a house divided in two, sunk a little in the ground, and with 
means of giving bottom heat to a pit in the centre, as well as 
pipes for atmospheric heat. Vines are growing in these houses, 
aud Eigs, &c., in the beds. In these beds fine specimens of 
Roses were grown, but they required such coolness as to interfere 
with the Grapes. The fine plants have, therefore, been turned 
out, and the Grapes are this season very good in consequence. 
The short end of the parallelogram consists also of two houses, 
but lean-tos. One of these is divided so as to make a Peach-house 
at one end, and the other is an omnium gatherum for all sorts of 
early fruit, there being a pit for fermenting matter in the centre, 
Vines planted in front, and Nectarines, Peaches, and Eigs on the 
back wall. The roots of the front Vines were raised and fresh 
