The private garden, only used by the family.
The rosary, or dressed flower garden, in front of the greenhouse.
The American garden, for plants of that country only.
The Chinese garden, surrounding a pool in front of the great Chinese pavilion, to be decorated with plants from China.
The botanic garden, for scientific classing of plants.
The animated garden, or menagerie.
And lastly, the English garden or shrubbery walk, connecting the whole; sometimes commanding views into each of these distinct objects and sometimes into the park and distant country.
This plan was much on the model of what had grown up at Kew, to which let us return, after recalling that before its grounds came into note, Queen Caroline had begun or enlarged the gardens about Richmond Lodge, extending them over an unkempt flat, as we understand from her private laureate, Stephen Duck. To poets of his school there was no beauty in heath and wild copses, like the rough patch of Sheen Common still left to the gratitude of our Bank-Holiday age.
Not so attractive lately shone the plain,