362 FLORA HISTORICA. 



of mixed varieties may be admitted, but these 

 never tell so well in the perspective as a mass 

 of a single colour. It considerably adds to the 

 beauty of these plants v^hen they are so placed 

 as to appear emerging 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 pres- 

 sed together, the flowers have not room to dis- 

 play their beauty, and they take a stiff and un- 

 natural appearance instead of that careless free- 

 dom which constitutes the beauty of all plants, 



" Yet in this wild disorder art presides, 

 Designs, corrects, and regulates the whole^ 

 Herself the while unseen." 



Mason. 



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 which has as bad an 

 eflect in the garden as a straight line of Lom- 

 bardy Poplars 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 



