Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . , a standing rebuke to the growingpractice of sticking flower-beds here, there, and everywhere,to the destruction of everything like repose, rest, andbreadth of view. The poet has sung of Wiier, water, everywhere,Ani not a drop t? drink. If we so on as we are doing, we will want another poet tosing of Flowers, flowers, everywhere, and not a bit of greengrass on which to stand and see them. We now, however, leave this terrace and motint the stepsto the flower garden on the west side of the mansion, thisgarden being on the same le
Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . , a standing rebuke to the growingpractice of sticking flower-beds here, there, and everywhere,to the destruction of everything like repose, rest, andbreadth of view. The poet has sung of Wiier, water, everywhere,Ani not a drop t? drink. If we so on as we are doing, we will want another poet tosing of Flowers, flowers, everywhere, and not a bit of greengrass on which to stand and see them. We now, however, leave this terrace and motint the stepsto the flower garden on the west side of the mansion, thisgarden being on the same level as the upper terrace (2) onthe south front, and the same wall (3) being continued onits south side. We had heard of this flower garden, andformed high expectations of it, as some of our readers mayrecollect what we said of the beauty of the flower garden atthe Hyde when under Mr. Donaldsons management. Thearrangement and the blending of colotirs were everything OetoiCT 25, isu. ] JOTIENAIi OP HOETICXTLTTEE iL>T> COTTAGE GAEDBNKB. 1 = ? j ? =>? =;. that could be desired. Tlie broad band of Box round thecentral oval told remarkably well. Did we wish to be hyper-critical it would be to say :hat the small circles in tte chain pattern would hare looked as well if all had been plantedwith the same thing. The four twists cf PerBla were justhigh enough, but half an hours nipping would have made 336 JOUENAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, [ October 25,1861. them perfect. A few days before the end of Septembermost likely they were the right height, and most probablywere so by the 1st of October. It was easy to see thatheights were studied carefully, as well as colours, a matterof great importance in a symmetrical arrangement. Being a distinct garden for flowers, what we have saidabove of breadth of view does not at all apply, as it forms ofitself a separate feature of interest. Beautiful as it looked,however, and well as it was managed, two changes seemedto be necessar
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