An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles encyclopdiaofg00loud Year: 1827 1024 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. tain much land attached. No hot-houses, and but little pleasure-ground is here re- quired. What land there may be, should be applied to use rather than
An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles encyclopdiaofg00loud Year: 1827 1024 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. tain much land attached. No hot-houses, and but little pleasure-ground is here re- quired. What land there may be, should be applied to use rather than to beauty. Speaking of hunting-boxes, Marshall observes ' a suit of paddocks should be seen from the house ; and if a view of distant covers can be caught, the back ground will be com- plete. The stable, the kennel, the leaping-bar, are the apppendages, in the construc- tion of which simplicity, substantialness, and conveniency should prevail.' 7282. A cottage ornee, we think, might be characterised by the garden-front opening into a picturesque orchard ; or a lawn, varied by groups of fruit-trees, instead of a lawn or park planted with forest trees. It may contain any part of the scenes of the villa, at the will of the owner. If the situation of the house is elevated, so as to give a view from the principal rooms of a great part of the farm, it will be the more desirable. A desirable foundation for this improvement is an old English farmhouse ; by adding to which one or two principal rooms, a very interesting group may be formed at little expense. 7283. Cottage en verger. An agreeable va- riety of this species sometimes adopted in France, consists in surrounding an enclosed space of one or two acres, with an irregular strip of walnut, cherry, chestnut, and other tall-growing trees (Jig. 722. a) which produce both fruit and timber; and then planting the interior space (b) with the finer sorts of fruit-trees, especially pears and plums, as standards, on turf. Winding walks ar
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