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the ground. Proper soil can now be filled 

 in up to the level of the slate edging. Ano- 

 ther ring of faggots and slates is then fixed 

 nine inches inside the outer, and filled with 

 earth as before, and yet another eight inches 

 nearer the centre. 



This upper, and final bed will be found to 

 be eighteen inches in diameter, aud eighteen 

 inches above the level of the lawn. 



About seventy slates will be required for 

 the work ; for the bottom tier about seventy 

 split faggots, the middle thirty, and the 

 upper twenty. 



The verbenas are planted at the extreme 

 edge, to be trained downwards, or to fill any 

 gap between the geraniums. 



Some readers may think this arrangement 

 rather artificial, but when covered with 

 foliage and blossom, as it will be through 

 all the summer months, the general effect 

 will be quite rustic enough for a suburban 

 garden, from which a view of some sort of 

 architecture is generally obtainable. And, 

 indeed, in the South American forests, 

 where none but 



He " Who spake and it was done," 



SECTIONAL ELEVATION. 



[The Constructional Lines are dotted. Scale half-an-inch to a Foot.'] 



We have just planted one of these in the 

 following manner : — 



Top. Centre, 1 large Tom Thumb ~) 



(Scarlet Geranium) . V 4 



3 small ) 



Tier 1. Prince Albert (Scarlet S .. 1 



Geranium) .... > 1 a 



Andre' Verbena (Blue) . ) 



Tier 2. Tom Thumb .... 717 



Ariosto Verbena (Mulberry) )1 9 



Edge. Prince Albert (Large) . £ 18 



Variegated Mint [. . . ) 30 



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has had any ordering of the wild luxuriance 

 and beautiful irregularity of the enchanting 

 scenery, the writer has seen natural floral 

 pyramids, very similar in effect to the one 

 above described. 



We already have cheap return-tickets to 

 Brazil, so no doubt, ere long, public atten- 

 tion will be drawn to that magnificent 

 country. In whatever portion of the 

 globe we may travel, we shall always find 

 evidences of a God of love. What a happy 

 thought, that He who created this lovely 

 universe, should invite us sinners to dwell 

 with Him for ever, in a far more glorious 

 world, after death ! 



JUNE WORK IN THE GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE. 



Not till the 19th of May did Ave enjoy, 

 in London, such an elevation of tem- 

 perature as warranted the committal to 

 the ground of bedding-stock. In many 

 places we saw the beds stocked before 



the 12th, and could only regret, that 

 the plants which had been so well 

 nursed for months, and, at last, brought 

 into luxuriant growth and abundant 

 bloom, should be so harshly dealt 



