servatory has also six evergreens (Laurustinus) in it, and the wall behind is wired for choice climbers.

As a specimen of formal treatment, in relation to a Gothic house on an irregular plot of ground, fig. 178 may assist in illustrating this series of flower-gardens. It was prepared to accompany the mansion of George Marton, Esq., Capernwray Hall, near Burton, Westmoreland. The entrance to the house is on the north side, and there is a long bold carriage sweep occupying the whole length of that front, and communicating with a broad western terrace walk. From the carriage sweep and the western walk there is a grass terrace bank, five or six feet deep, the dressed ground being defined by a sunk fence, with a parapet wall on the top of it. This wall is expanded out on the western side, with bastions and seats at the corners; and the space it encloses is occupied by beds of dwarf evergreens. On the south side there is a level lawn, with flower beds, covering a breadth of about sixty feet from the house; and then the ground rises, by a grass bank, about four feet high, to another platform of lawn, the beds on which are filled with low evergreens. There is another terrace bank, likewise ascending, to the eastward of this point, and the lawn beyond rises with an easy slope to the south and east.

The figures on the plan denote specimen and other plants, as below:

Against the lower terrace wall, occasional specimens or patches of small climbing or trailing plants, mostly evergreen, are intro

duced, and would be allowed to scramble partially over the parapet, for picturesqueness. The clumps at the ends of the

terrace banks, in the corners of walks, and about the steps, are composed principally of Rhododendrons.

Some gardens do not admit of the introduction of anything like a regular flower-garden; and for these, circular flower-beds, whether arranged formally or dotted about near the swells of the clumps of shrubs, are peculiarly available. An example of the first variety of this class occurs in the garden of Edward Walker, Esq., Chester, (fig. 179,) where I have endeavoured to give some degree of symmetry to an irregular piece of ground, and to effect, by round flower-beds, the due enlivenment and variegation of the lawn.

The house being at 1, it will be noticed that the lawn is on the north side of it; consequently, the flower-beds could not be brought near the windows. In order to terminate the garden, and separate it better from the kitchen-garden, 6, as well as to give more meaning to the rows of flower-beds, and to obtain a suitable position for a greenhouse, it was projected to put the latter at 2, on a raised platform 2 ft. high, with a shed (3) for the heating apparatus at the back, and a grass terrace bank (4) round the three front sides. A series of flower-beds would extend around this bank.

In the middle of the lawn there is a small circular basin of water, (5,) with a stone rim, and adapted for a quiet fountain. The slope of the lawn is chiefly to the north, but this does not amount to more than three or four feet in the entire length. A few good forest trees, principally Beech and Lime, mingle with the shrubs on either side. And there is a choice variety of evergreen shrubs in the place, including a large number of Rhododendrons, which impart considerable richness and beauty to the garden when they are in flower.

From figs. 180 to 184, inclusive, an idea or two may, perhaps, be gleaned as to the regulation of small flower-pots with a formal outline. The two first are designed to accompany a house in the Tudor or Elizabethan style. Fig. 180 might, indeed, be cut upon a lawn; but would be better adapted for gravel divisions and box edgings. Fig. 181 is meant to have the beds edged with stone, and to be placed in the recess or other compartment of a terrace. In the sketch, fig. 182, an attempt is made to fill in the outline of a shield with flower-beds, and this must be taken merely as a hint of what might possibly be done,

with a little ingenuity, in the way of embodying heraldic devices, or some of the elements of family arms, in small isolated flower

gardens. Fig. 183 represents a group, on grass, with shrubs inserted in some of the beds. These shrubs might be such erect-growing kinds as Irish Yews, or Irish Junipers, or they

Fig. 180.

might be standard Roses, or standard plants of Cotoneaster microphylla or Taxus adpressa, or they might even be bushy evergreens, as Rhododendrons, or some choice kind of Holly trimmed into a

Fig. 181.

regular shape, or any other bush that would not be damaged by the surrounding flowers in summer.

On the top of a terrace at the end of a house, or in the front