THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 169 



Seeing how well the Floral Would stands in the favour 

 of lady gardeners, I think this series of papers cannot be com- 

 plete without I give some information respecting the decoration of 

 the garden during the spring months. I hear that what lias 

 appeared respecting the decoration of the beds and borders for the 

 summer has been useful. I will, therefore, endeavour to make the 

 others the same, and in view of having cheerful flower-beds in the 

 spring, I will ask my readers to sow at once on a shady spot in 

 the kitchen garden, the blue and white perennial forget-me-not in 

 separate colours. 



If the ground is dug up about six or eight square yards for each 

 colour, and well watered before the seed is sown, and then the seed 

 lightly covered over, there will be some nice plants to go out in the 

 beds and borders in October and November. This is all that is 

 really required for the spring preparation this month. Next month 

 I hope to return to the subject. 



UTILIZATION OF ETJBBISH. 



^HE pages of the Floral "World afford many a hint on 

 artistic gardening, and on lovers of the picturesque 

 these hints are doubtless not thrown away. 



It is the lot of few to possess their terraces and 

 statuary, with shrubberies, lawn, and lake, but it is 

 within the reach of all to form for themselves combinations which 

 will make " bits" on which the eye can rest with satisfaction ; all the 

 more gratifying, perhaps, when they can feel that it is something 

 made out of nothing. 



Effect is by no means dependent upon expense. A marble or a 

 terra cotta fountain may have cost a great deal of money, and be an 

 ugly thing at the end of it, which any one with taste would cover 

 over with ivy, as soon as it could be made to grow. On the other 

 hand, a few stones and leaves put together in the manner illustrated 

 at page 132 of Volume I. cost next to nothing, and form an 

 essentially artistic object, which even an uneducated eve cannot help 

 admiring. 



Here is a case in point, a pleasing entrance terrace made out of 

 old roots and superannuated apple trees. Every one may not have 

 an avenue of trees to operate upon, but the avenue is not essential 

 to the effect. The terrace and rooting are complete in themselves, 

 and might be applied in many positions. Neither is much difference 

 in level essential, as the rise is, in this case, borrowed. In reality 

 the ground within the railing rises only fifteen inches ; but by piling 

 up the roots behind, a considerable difference of level is made to 

 appear. On the face the roots are thoroughly cleared of earth and 

 built up in imitation of rustic stone-work. The railing on the top 

 being made out of an old trained apple tree, removed from the 

 garden, and sawn through the middle. The thick stem laid along 

 the top of the roots gives the effect of coping. Behind the railing 



