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Title: Barr & Sugden's spring seed catalogue and guide to the flower and kitchen garden / Barr & Sugden.
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Barr & Sugden.
Subjects: Nursery Catalogue
Publisher: Barr & Sugden,
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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lackfriars. Our illustration gives the ornamental ground extending from Charing Cross Railway Station toWaterloo Bridge, designed by Alexander MKenzie, Esq., Landscape Gardener, Alexandra Park, Muswell Hill;executed by Mr. Joseph F. Meston, the well-known horticultural contractor, and clothed with a beautiful greensward, the produce of our mixture of grasses specially made for ornamental parks in large towns. The seed wassown on the 25th August, and within three weeks the ground was covered with a beautiful verdure ; and whenofficially inspected, within three months from the day of sowing, the combination of grasses had formed so closeand even a sward, that it was supposed that Mr. Meston had tin-fed the ground, thus demonstrating that the suc-cessful laying down of lawns is dependent upon the suitability of the varieties of grasses used for the purpose, andit is of the first importance to managers of public parks, and to gentlemen interested in such undertakings, to lookwell to this.
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It may be interesting to our readers if we describe the illustration of this part of the ground. The CharingCross Station of the Metropolitan Underground Railway appears on the lower left-hand side of the engraving,and the word Open represents the air-shafts of the line. The white portions are the walks, which arensphalted and margined with Irish ivies pegged down in imitation of the beautiful edgings so much admiredin the public squares and open spaces of Paris. The circle in the centre represents the fountain, surroundingwhich are beds cut out of the grass, while a fringe of shrubs surmounts more or less the whole of the ornamentalgrounds on elevated banks, amongst which are planted deciduous trees to shut out the buildings behind. Thereis no part of London which is fraught with so much interest as the part we have illustrated. The shaded portionrepresents where our grass-seed was sozvtz. Would that Sir Christopher Wren and John Martin could be recalled to life, to witness the reali

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