can be little question that the most regular plan of arrangement will be in all respects the best. The walks should be straight, and at right angles, and the beds and clumps be symmetrical and well-balanced. A walk on either side of such a garden, or one down the centre, will be preferable to having a walk on only one side. And effect may be aimed at in the way of lines or rows of beds and plants, with a summer-house, a small greenhouse, a vase, a cluster of shrubs, or other pleasing object to terminate the little avenue thus created. As much of open lawn as is practicable, and a predominance of evergreens, will be desirable for such gardens; since these will be agreeable at all seasons of the year. And extreme smoothness and neatness of finish and of keeping are essential. The beds introduced, too, should be scrupulously simple in form and arrangement. A specimen of a rather peculiar town garden will be found in fig. 183, which is a plan of the garden of John Johnson, Esq., in the town of Runcorn. The house, 1, offices of various kinds, 2, and stable-buildings, &c., are all in one block. There are two vineries at 3, and a greenhouse at 4, with garden-sheds behind them; and these are also in one block. At 5, there is a melon pit, 6 is a basin of water and a small fountain, in the centre of a flower-plot, 7 is a summer house, 8 borders for vines, 9 a border for flowers and climbing plants, and 10 a little strawberry, herb, and salad garden, which is four or five feet higher than the parts about the house, and is separated from these by a bold retaining wall, 30. This latter is only about three feet high, and there is a grass slope behind it, with a few specimens and groups of shrubs, to prevent the cultivated ground from being seen in the lower garden. The high road or street is to the north, and the Bridgewater Canal and towing path on the south side of the place. The whole garden is necessarily enclosed by walls, except immediately in front of the plot by the entrance, where there is a light iron railing. The discrepancy in the lines of the house and the offices, and the want of squareness in the southern boundary, give the plan a somewhat awkward look, which is not noticed in the ground. The former evil is mitigated, too, by the masses of shrubs (29) placed in the corners of the lower southern plot. Those beds appropriated to flowers will be easily distinguished. The small avenue of circles is opposite one of the drawing-room windows, and these beds are meant to be occupied with only two sorts of plants, of striking colours, placed alternately. The specimen shrubs and the masses of plants are nearly all numbered; the clumps that are without numbers representing a mixture of shrubs, of which there is room for few besides evergreens. 11. Hybrid Rhododendron. 12. Golden-blotched Holly. 13. Hodgins's Holly. 14. Black-leaved Laurustinus. 15. Cluster of Rhododendron ferrugineum. 16. Andromeda floribunda. 17. Irish Yews, to be kept at a uniform height of 3 ft. 18. Half-standard Roses, all 2 ft. high. 19. Pernettya mucronata. 20. Common Laurustinus. 21. Aucuba japonica. 22. Ilex marginata. 23. Erica multiflora. 24. Garrya elliptica. 25. Cotoneaster microphylla. 27. Berberis aquifolium. 30. Ornamental retaining wall, 3 ft. high. 31. Border for fruit-trees, to be trained to wall. Altogether, the garden, house, other buildings, and yards of this place cover about half an acre. A similar space is occupied by the suburban garden, fig. 184, the plan of which fills the two next pages. It was made in 1855 for T. R. Hoare, Esq., of Kingston, Surrey. The house stands in the centre of a cluster of three, by the side of the Thames, and has a good view, across the water, of Hampton Court palace and park, from the western or entrance front. The existence of a few old trees upon the ground has somewhat governed the arrangement of the plan, and caused the two walks to be at unequal distances from the walls. It has also rendered it impossible to have a border on the north side of the garden, which would have been an excellent situation for flowers and climbers. But the value of these trees in excluding neighbouring houses, and in diminishing the hardness of the outlines, and the general appearance of newness, is too great to allow of their being sacrificed. With the exception of this slight difference, the walks are disposed quite regularly, and large vases are placed (11) at the points where they diverge, and pass around the flower-plot. The corners, by the stables, are left for rubbish, (32,) and for a general garden-yard, with a tool-shed (12) in it. They are surrounded with a rustic or trellis fence. Some degree of irregularity is attempted in the treatment of the lawn, as regards the placing of the shrubs and flower-beds; variety being better attained by this means. The lawn east of the terrace bank (4) is, however, quite flat, and the centre is left wholly unencumbered. The border along the south side of the garden is used for such climbers as will thrive on a north wall, and specimen evergreens are, as will be noted, freely introduced. The figures refer to— 1. Aucuba japonica. 2. Irish Yew. 3. Laurustinus. 4. Terrace-bank of grass, 4 ft. high. 5. Hybrid Rhododendron. 6. Large old Elm-trees. 7. Common Holly. 8. Silver Holly. 9. Narrow-leaved Alaternus. 10. Ilex balearica. 11. Vases for flowers, on pedestals. 13. Spiraea Lindleyana. 14. Golden Holly. 15. Andromeda floribunda. 16. Standard Roses. 17. Double Furze. 18. Old Oak-tree. 19. Daphne pontica. 20. Red-flowered Arbutus. 21. Cydonia japonica. 22. Cupressus macrocarpa. 24. Cupressus torulosus. 25. Yellow-berried Holly. 26. Siberian Arbor-Vitæ. 30. Irish Juniper. 31. Arbutus unedo. 33. Half-standard Roses. 34. Kalmia latifolia. 35. Hodgins's Holly. 36. Red Cedar. 37. Ribes sanguineum. 38. Border for flowers and climbing plants. 17. Small villages and village-gardens, when they fall so completely within the boundary of an estate or of a park, to be |