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Firs; outside the inner panel formed by the Firs, and all round it, T\'as 

 a line of Stachys lanata, and at each angle a patch of Aubrietia pur- 

 purea in the form of the segment of a circle. This arrangement 

 was carried through the whole series of beds forming the outside 

 circle. In the centres of the beds the arrangement alternated with 

 the next bed; either it was a centre of the pink Silene pendula mingled 

 with double crimson Tulips, or a centre of blue Forget-me-not 

 mingled with the pretty rose-flaked Silver Standard Tulip. Next the 

 broad circular gravel- walk was an edging of turf, about 12 inches 

 in breadth. It was a happy thought of Mr Quilter's to throw up this 

 raised circular border : the area of this garden is so large that it re- 

 quires some such arrangement to show off the fine effect of the masses 

 of colour found here ; and no one can give an idea of the splendour 

 of the scene but those who have inspected it. 



Turning now to the centre of this garden, the writer comes to speak 

 of a display almost unparalleled in the history of spring gardening. 

 The outside scroll-bed is on a level with the circular walk, and, with 

 the sunken garden in the centre, may be said to be inlaid in turf. 

 Next the scroll-bed, on the inside, is a sharp fall of some 5 feet, in 

 the form of a turfy bank ; then come four circular beds, each sur- 

 rounding a pedestal supporting a vase, and four beds between them in 

 the form of sections of a circular line. A fountain, rather below the 

 level of this sunken garden, forms the centre, composed of " slag " — 

 i.e., the bluish- tinted rock-like refuse from the glass-works; a low stone 

 basin contains the water. The double line round the fountain in the 

 diagram represents a border; next the basin was a line of the common 

 Fern of the woods ; then, inside, a circle of Spruce Fir ; then Wall- 

 flowers, edged with a circular line of showy gold-laced Polyanthuses. 

 Among the Wallflowers, Tulips were planted thus : at the back a 

 row of double crimson, the remainder with the double yellow. The 

 pedestals in the four small circular beds were also formed of "slag." 

 The vases had been filled with Hyacinths, but these had been removed, 

 and their place supplied with Centaurea candidissima. The beds at the. 

 foot of each pedestal were filled with Echeveria secunda. The other four 

 beds were filled with Silene pendula as a carpet. From two of them rose 

 a kind of canopy formed of the Silver Standard early single Tulip; from 

 two others, the showy single Duchesse de Parma, red, edged with gold. 



But the feature of the garden was the scroll-bed now about to be 

 described. This bed is above 90 yards in length by 5 feet in width. 

 The serpentine line was formed of a deep-coloured double crimson 

 Daisy ; while the rounded angles or groundwork of the bed were filled 

 with the double white Daisy. On either side of the winding line of 

 crimson Daisy was one of Echeveria secunda. The small circles on 



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