Supposing the length of the back gardes to be 150 ft., the soil moderately good, and the subsoil such as not to require much drainage, the expense of laying out, and blocking out the walks, may be 20l. or 25l. The number of trees and shrubs required, exclusive of the ivy, may be 250, at the average price of 2s. each. The ivy, the gross seeds, and other expenses, may amount to 5l.; so that the total expense of laying est and planting each garden, exclusive of purchasing and laying in the gravel in the walks, may amount to between 55l. and 60l. If trees and shrubs were purchased which averaged 1s. each, the sum would be reduced to from 40l Is 50l.; or, if the average of the trees and shrubs were 6d each, then the tois would be reduced to from 35l. to 40l. The expense of management, exclusive of taking care of the plants in pots, would be very trifling. If the walks wen paved, nothing more would be required than mowing the lawn, clipping At edges of the grass along the walks, sweeping up leaves, and cutting of decayed flowers or dead twigs, all which need not cost more than 5l. a year; and for a similar sum a commercial gardener would keep the veranda stocked throughout the year with boxes of mignonette, and supply a succession of plants in flower, during the summer months, for the balcony.

164. Remarks

These gardens are well adapted for persons who take no pleasure in seeing the operations of gardening going forward, and who ate rather annoyed than otherwise at meeting a gardener in walking round their grounds. Some, also, object to having a gardener, or any strange man, coming about the house; and in this case there would be as little of that as there could possibly be in any garden where a handsome display was to be made. The mowing, and all the operations required for these gardens, might be performed in the mornings, between six and eight o'clock.