Remarks. The striking effect produced by the flower-garden at Hoole depends on the contrast between the smooth flat surface of the lawn, with the uniformity of the circular beds, and the great irregularity of the surrounding rockwork. The length of the flower-garden, within the rocky boundary, is 60 yards, and the breadth 34 yards. The baskets, twenty-seven in number, are in five straight rows, and each basket is a circle of 9 ft. 5 in. in diameter. They are made of wire, worked on an iron rod; the rod being placed upon small pegs, to keep the basket to the level of the grass; and they are painted a yellow stone colour, to harmonise with the rocks and the veranda. They stand 8 in. above the ground, the grass coming close to the iron rod. The distance between each, across the garden, is 4 ft., and down the garden, 8 ft. 10 in. They are planted with spring, summer, and autumn flowers mingled together; and the spaces left, when those are over, are filled with green-house plants, viz. geraniums, verbenas, &c., German stocks, and tender annuals, which keep up the colour until the frosts destroy them: the hardy perennials remain for the next season.
