An English Marine Garden and Residence 
made to the conservatories, which are to he 
erected in the enclosed garden near the resi¬ 
dence in order to rear ornamental palms and 
plants for the decoration of the house. The 
central position is to he treated architecturally 
as a small winter-garden; and with the addi¬ 
tional purpose in view of hiding the adjoin¬ 
ing property, is to be carried as high as the 
rules of proportion will admit. The walk 
leading to this is to be kept gay throughout 
the greater part ot the year by bedding out 
plants arranged in masses for colour effect. 
To complete the screen against the ad¬ 
joining property it is under consideration to 
build an addition to the lodge. When this 
is carried out the entrance will be through 
an arch, and an additional bed-room to the 
gardener’s cottage will be secured, as well as 
a day-and-night room on the opposite side 
for the use of a footman. The position of 
the kitchen-garden (one and a half acres in 
extent) is indicated on the plan, and is ap¬ 
proached from the pleasure gardens by a rose 
walk over which are thrown arches twenty- 
five feet apart. The kitchen-garden is 
surrounded by a good fruit wall ten feet 
high, a gardener’s cottage being planned to 
occupy the southwest corner. Along the 
ENTRANCE TO THE ROSE WALK 
main walks have been arranged fruit espaliers, 
both walls and espaliers being planted with 
the choicest varieties. In the more ornate 
portions of the ground, are certain effective 
positions, and at openings in the yew hedges 
there has been introduced a feeling of quaint¬ 
ness by the insertion of clipped trees and 
clipped arches, which are by no means in¬ 
appropriate when seen in conjunction with 
long stretches of clipped yew hedges, here so 
necessary as a protection from the sea. By 
good fortune the proprietor secured excellent 
specimens, which have been successfully 
moved, as may be judged by the illustrations. 
In considering the utilitarian aspect of the 
garden, important as it undoubtedly is, it 
must not be thought that the more human 
or, truthfully speaking, the poetic side has 
been lost sight of. To be successful, a 
garden must be something more than a mere 
comfortable, shady, or sunny recreation and 
promenading ground, garnished with a dis¬ 
play of flowers, and studded with a wealth 
of various trees. This is a fact which any 
person of artistic perception can demonstrate 
by analyzing a well-arranged picture : let us 
say a landscape, by preference, as being the 
nearest to the subject matter in hand, where 
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