garden, for fully three hundred feet, and is supported, as shown in the figure, by an avenue of flower-beds, (3,) with intermediate specimens (2) of alternate dwarf Standard Roses and Irish Yews. Scarlet Geraniums and white Verbenas were intended to occupy every other flower-bed in this series; but the arrangement is obviously susceptible of great variation, so long as the colours are very decided, and either make a good contrast, or a suitable harmony. The walk is terminated by an alcove, and is separated from the park, on the south side, by a sunk fence, and from the flower-garden and kitchen-garden by a terrace-bank (16) of grass. Descending the steps from the long terrace walk to the centre of the flower-garden, low rustic flower-baskets, (4,) with a flowerbed between them, flank the walk to the greenhouse, (10,) which has been erected against what was the old kitchen-garden wall, to form a nucleus around which the flower-garden might be arranged. The greenhouse is a span-roofed structure, and has a boiler and potting shed (11) at the back, with a garden yard, 12. At either side of the greenhouse, the wall was proposed to be plastered or otherwise improved, and covered with ornamental climbers; this altered part being stopped by piers, (13,) and a portion between the pier and the kitchen-garden masked by evergreens. There is a large plantation at the back of the wall, into which the walks at 13 would enter, and become wood-walks. At 14 there were to be trellised or rustic gates, with a trellised or rustic wooden fence, (15,) to be covered with climbers, for shutting off the kitchen-garden. The border (9) is for choice herbaceous flowers and bulbs, and its breadth is relieved by specimens (17) of Irish Yew, and (18) of Laurustinus. In the flower-garden itself, some diversity is produced by rustic flower-baskets, (5,) on pedestals, at the eight corners, and by larger low rustic flower-baskets, in the middle of flower-beds, at 6. The specimens (7) are hybrid Rhododendrons, and those at 8 are Fuchsia gracilis, or other hardy kind. A remarkable and interesting historical relic exists in the park at Acton Burnell, in the shape of an old tithe barn, supported by a few singularly picturesque Larches and other trees; and this building is known to have been used as a parliament house by Edward I., during his wars with the Welsh in 1283. Fig. 173 indicates the mode of laying out a small nook in the grounds of Joshua Fielden, Esq., Stansfield Hall, near Todmorden, and results from a recent extension of an old Elizabethan house, placed near the junction of the two picturesque valleys east by rising ground, supported by a terrace-wall, (3,) which is adorned with vases, on piers. The erection of this wall has produced a terrace-walk, (4,) which is about four feet higher than the platform on which the flower-beds are placed; this, again, being twenty inches higher than the general lawn, and having a grass bank (2) along the south-eastern side. The borders (1) which unite by the town of Todmorden. The plot is at the northeast end of the house, and is severed from the back road to the stables by an ornamental wall, while it is bounded on the north are for climbing plants and flowers. At 5, there are flowervases, on pedestals; and 6 is a sun-dial. The specimens, 7, are of Erica multiflora, and 8 is a bed of mixed Heaths, to separate, slightly, the two parts. There are half-standard Roses (this being a sheltered corner) at 9, Andromeda floribunda at 10, with beds of Rhododendron ferrugineum at 11, and of R. hirsutum at 12. The two larger flower-beds are intended to accommodate a very useful recent expedient in bedding-out plants, and to receive five different sorts of flowers in each, one sort being put in either of the four lobes, and one in the centre. If the colours be happily chosen, and the plants at all assimilate in habit, such a plan is much more telling than the old system of having only one kind in a bed. For a secluded flower-garden, apart from the ordinary lawn, and either enclosed by shrubs, or taken out of the north side of a kitchen-garden that is not walled in, the design, fig. 174, may possess recommendations. It was made in 1849 for James Barratt, Esq., of Lymm Hall, near Warrington. Lymm Hall is an ancient Elizabethan edifice, partially surrounded by an old moat, with rising ground in the pleasuregarden and field on the south side. A little to the eastward of the south front a dense mass of Hollies and other evergreens screens off the kitchen-garden, and it is on the south side of this plantation, attached to the kitchen-garden, that the flower-garden now under notice has been made. It is connected with the lawn by a grass path, through the screen of evergreens; and this grass path (13) passes up the middle of the flower-garden, being terminated by a summer-house, (1,) which is covered with climbing Roses. The rest of the walks are of gravel, and have box-edgings, differing in this respect from any that I have yet described. At 2 there are garden-seats, canopied and enclosed with Ivy, which is grown on a wooden trellis. In the borders 3, which are devoted to Roses, there are, at regular intervals, alternate specimens of standard and climbing Roses, the latter being represented by the larger dots, and being trained to poles, and to chains hanging between these in the form of festoons. In the circles (4) are specimens of a very dwarf and compact variety of the common Juniper, while Fuchsias occupy the other circles, marked 5. To the beds, 6, were assigned different varieties of Verbena, with one sort in each; but they could of course be filled |