. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. yign. K///.—King's Head Inn, Mitcham. CHAPTER III. GENERAL PLAN OF Mi GARDEN. ' Hoc erat in votis ; modus agri non ita magnus, Hortus ubi, e tecto vicinus jugis aquse fons, Et paulum silvae super his ;—HORACE, Satira vL IT is a common notion that gardens should be laid out for one general effect; but the result of such a plan is to produce a single view, and the whole can be seen at a glance. This is, however, mono- tonous, and my liking is to have many pictu
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. yign. K///.—King's Head Inn, Mitcham. CHAPTER III. GENERAL PLAN OF Mi GARDEN. ' Hoc erat in votis ; modus agri non ita magnus, Hortus ubi, e tecto vicinus jugis aquse fons, Et paulum silvae super his ;—HORACE, Satira vL IT is a common notion that gardens should be laid out for one general effect; but the result of such a plan is to produce a single view, and the whole can be seen at a glance. This is, however, mono- tonous, and my liking is to have many pictures; so that my visitors have to' walk a long way before they can see the many beautiful views which my garden affords; and little spots of cultivated wildness, or of special cultivation, are found where they are least expected. In all my designs, I have tried to suggest to the mind that it must be so ; and even when my arrangements are most artificial,— as when a walk doubles upon itself,—it looks that the arrangement has been made because no • other plan was really practicable; and when this idea is carried out, the garden looks natural. Throughout my garden my vegetables, flowers, and fruit-trees are blended together in one harmonious whole: a plot of carrots and a row of flowering peas are beautiful objects in themselves, and hence plots of vegetals and fruit-trees alternate with rosaries, ferneries alpineries, and flower-beds. Flower-beds in front of buildings are arranged as parallelograms and then the whole looks harmonious. My Croquet-ground is a parallelogram, because, as the hoops of the game are placed geo-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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