With respect to the annual expense of keeping up the garden, it will be evident to those who have seen it, or who understand this description, that it will chiefly consist in mowing the grass in the summer season. As the extent of grassy surface to be mown will be reduced by the space occupied by the walks, and by the circles of earth on which there is no grass (on which the trees and shrubs stand, or which those in the belt cover entirely), to about six acres, one man will be sufficient to mow and sweep up this extent of lawn during the whole summer; the daily space to mow being about half an acre, and the grass mown to be distributed over the naked circles on which the trees and shrubs stand. All the other work which will require to be done in the garden during summer, such as weeding the walks, rolling them, weeding the circles on which the trees and shrubs stand, picking off insects from the plants, watering the ground with lime water where worm-casts appear, wiping the seats every morning so as to remove the excrement of birds, or whatever leaves or other matters may drop from the branches of the trees over them, &c. &c., may be accomplished by a second labourer. The head gardener or curator may manage the flower-garden and the vases of flowers at the junctions of the walks, and see that the company who walk in the garden do not injure the plants, &c.
