. An encyclopædia of gardening; . s andother parts and buildings lighted, if desired, by gas. The grand entrance should havepresented three carriage-roads : one to the centre, to which visitors could drive and inspectthe hot-houses of all the departments, and just take a coup da:il of the open gardens be-longing to them ; the two others proceeding to the right and left, and forming a circum-ferential one, along which visitors might drive round the whole arboretum or shrubbery,and enter if they chose by six or eight communications, at different distances, the six or 3 Y 2 1060 STATISTICS OF GAR
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . s andother parts and buildings lighted, if desired, by gas. The grand entrance should havepresented three carriage-roads : one to the centre, to which visitors could drive and inspectthe hot-houses of all the departments, and just take a coup da:il of the open gardens be-longing to them ; the two others proceeding to the right and left, and forming a circum-ferential one, along which visitors might drive round the whole arboretum or shrubbery,and enter if they chose by six or eight communications, at different distances, the six or 3 Y 2 1060 STATISTICS OF GARDENING. Part IV. eight different open gardens. This is but a first rough sketch of what might have been,but such as it is we leave it as our protest against the present plan, from the details ofwhich the reader will judge for himself; 750*8. The London Horticultural Societys garden contains 33 acres, of which 17|are devoted to horticulture (A),roads, yards, &c. (C). 133 to floriculture and arboriculture (B), and 1| to The fruit anH kilchm department (A) contains —Eastern slip for herbs, perennial esculents, and strawberries. and border of east wall, A 1Orchard, A 2 Southern slip for strawberries, gooseberries, currant^ and rasp-berries, and borders of south wall, A 3Kitchen-garden, A 4 Miscellaneous standard fruit compartment, A 5Site for fruit glass, A 6Pits and forcing gi ound, A 7Garden for small ftuits, A 8 Western slips for stocks, and fruit-wall border, A 9Experimental garden, A 10. The ornamental department (B) contains —Entrance to flower-garden, B 1Flower-garden, B 2 7509. The garden of the Caledonian Horticultural Society is not yet in a state to bediscussed. Sito fnr oma ->ental gass, B 3Arboretum, B 4Rose-garden, B 5Experimental garden, B 6 The lodges, roads, and yards (C) are —Entrance from London, and ornamental gardeners proposedlodge, C 1 Assistant secretarvs proposed lodge, C 2 Space unoccupied at angle, C 3 Private road outside of the f
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