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from among dwarf shrubs, where the lower part of 

 the stalks are obscured. They must not be planted 

 too near each other, as every stem of flowers 

 should be seen distinct ; and when they require 

 support, they should each have a separate stake — 

 for when several are pressed together, the flowers 

 have not room to display their beauty, and they 

 take a stiff* and unnatural appearance, instead of 

 that careless freedom which constitutes the beauty 

 of all plants. 



Yet in this wild disorder art presides, 

 Designs, corrects, and regulates the whole, 

 Herself the while unseen. 



Masox. 



The vulgar planter, who has no idea of the 

 beauty of perspective gardening, frequently plants 

 his Hollyhocks in rows ; this is one of the errors 

 never seen in nature, and has as bad an effect in 

 the garden as a straight line of Lombardy Pop- 

 lars in a plantation, or a long rank of soldiers 

 painted in a landscape picture. 



The Hollyhock may be planted so as to orna- 

 ment the bounds of gardens, by forming clumps 

 at the angles and at irregular distances near the 

 fence, so that they do not form a straight line, for 

 such an arrangement would only make the limits of 

 the ground more conspicuous. For small gardens, 

 or where the situation is much exposed to the 



