No. 10.* MOUNT GROVE, HAMPSTEAD. * (No. 1. we consider to be Dr. Neill's Garden, Canon Mills Cottage, Edinburgh, Vol. XII. p. 333.; No. 2. the Gardes of H. Marshal, Esq., in the town of Godalming, Vol. XII. p. 474.; No. 3. Cheserholme Parsonage, the residence of the Rev. Anthony Hadley, Vol. XIII. p. 163.; No. 4. Hendon Rectory, the residence of the Rev. Theodore Williams, Vol. XIV. p. 220.; No. 5. Mrs. Lawrence's Villa at Drayton Green, Vol. XIV. p. 305.; No. 6. Hoole House, near Chester, the residence of Lady Broughton, Vol. XIV. p. 353.; No. 7. Quinta de la Valle, the residence of Dr. Renton in Madeira, Vol. XIV. p. 449.; No. 8. Bedford Lodge, Camden Hill, the Duke of Bedford, Vol. XIV. p. 401.; No. 9. The Garden of Mr. Abel Ingpen, A.L.S., Upper Manor Street, Chelsea, Vol. XIV. p. 456. In the course of the current volume, we intend to give plans and views of Kenwood near Hampstead. Wimbledon House, Redleaf, and Fortis Green (W. A. Nesfield), the engravings of all which are already completed; and of Mr. Harrison's Villa at Chestnut, the Abbe Gosier's Villa at Rouen, a villa at Berlin, a villa at Frankfort and one at Desio near Milan, the drawings of which have been made or received. Besides these, we contemplate giving several British villas, to the owners of which we have only just applied for permission to make the necessary plans and views.-Cond.) HAMPSTEAD and Highgate have beea noted for their suburban villas, ever since the time of Gerard and Parkinson. These villas appear to have been then, as now, principally occupied by London merchants; many of whom had rich gardens, containing foreign plants introduced through their connexion with other countries. It was in the garden of Master James Cole at Highgate, Parkinson's particular friend, that the common laurel was first planted: and there, we are informed, it flowered and ripened fruit; being protected through the winter by a blanket thrown over it in the most severe weather. Hampstead and Highgate are not only well calculated for villas from their elevated surface, but also from the surface being varied by numerous and strongly marked undulations; so that all these villas have not only views of considerable extent in one direction, but many of them have what may be called home views across the undulations. The Hampstead and Highgate villas, of late years, have attracted much less attention than they deserve, chiefly from the circumstance of the trees and shrubs in them being almost all fully grown; and, consequently, not admitting of the introduction of novelties in the shape of foreign shrubs and flowers, which form the grand attraction in the gardens of modern villas. It is well known to gardeners, that, in all small places abounding with full-grown trees, it is impossible to cultivate shrubs or herbaceous flowers among them with success. The only means of doing so is by having an open airy space, so large as neither to be darkened, nor too much sheltered, by the trunks and branches of the surrounding trees, nor exhausted by their roots. Many of the Hampstead villas hardly admit of having a space of this kind; and, therefore, few of them are very remarkable for their roses or herbaceous flowers. [Mount Grove disappeared when Prince Arthur Road was built]
