Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . e kitchen garden borders whichhad been formed, were planted with ribbon-rows, a practicevery prevalent in this neighbourhood, and of which moreanon. Fine dwarf Apple and Pear trees trained in the waythey should go and already in good bearing, were arrangedin the squares and borders. On leaving the kitchen garden we enter the north court which forms a large square, surrounded on each side by aneat low wall. Opposite the front door, on the north sideof this, are a splendid pair of gates, once, we were told, theproperty of the grea
Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . e kitchen garden borders whichhad been formed, were planted with ribbon-rows, a practicevery prevalent in this neighbourhood, and of which moreanon. Fine dwarf Apple and Pear trees trained in the waythey should go and already in good bearing, were arrangedin the squares and borders. On leaving the kitchen garden we enter the north court which forms a large square, surrounded on each side by aneat low wall. Opposite the front door, on the north sideof this, are a splendid pair of gates, once, we were told, theproperty of the great Napoleon, and bought at a fabulousprice by Eaikes Currie, Esq., the owner of this fine place,to whom it also owes its origin. Behind these gates and away over the moor, among theheather, we could see the outliiiies of what would some daybe a splendid avenue. On entering the pleasure grounds andflower garden we come first upon King Croquets ground(n), in the shape of a sunk panel with plenty of spaceinside. Surrounding this, on one side, c, were large circular. PLOWXE GARDEN AT MIKLET ABBEY. Beds in principal portion. 1. Centre. Stella Geranium; nextiRoseQueen; edging:, Ceraslium. 2. CHlccolaria Atiiea floribunda, Pnrple King Verbena; edging, Tom Thumb Geranium, edged with Man-glesU Geranium. 4. Fl>we of the D-iy Geranium, edged with ^Verbena pukhella. 5. BrilUunt (ieranium, edged Tvith Lobelia Bpeciosa. 6. Shrublaod Robp Petunia, edged -with Prince of Orange Calceolaria (old variety). 7. ManglesHGerAnium, Verbenarenosa, mixed; edged with Dulce of Cornwall Verbeua. 8, Tirperiai CrimBon Geranium, edged with Manglesii. 9. Bijou Gerauium, edging Lobelia speciosa. 10. Old variegated Scarlet Geranium, edging Lobelia. 11. Christine Geranium, dged with Manglesii. 12. Cerise Unique Geranium, edged with Gaaa- nia Four bels No. 1. ChriMtine Geranium, edgedwith Lobelia beds No. 2. Tom Thumb Geranium, edged with Alyssum bed No. 3. Pi
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