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With respect to arrangements, the last-named plant makes a good 

 centre mass with a band of Retinospora ericoides edged with E. 

 pisifera aurea or Euonymus radicans variegatus. Dwarf plants of 

 Laurestinus in bloom, where thej^ do well — they are this year covered 

 with bloom just opening — make grand centres, banded with Aucuba 

 and edged with R. ericoides. With a view to spring effect, if the 

 shrubs be not too thickly planted, such things as Anemones, Wall- 

 flowers, especially the Belvoir Yellow, Eorget-me-]^ots, can be planted 

 among them with good effect : now is the time to plant. Of course 

 beds of Wall-flowers by themselves look as well as many shrubs in 

 winter, with the advantage of the flowers in spring, always supposing 

 there is no game to destroy them. 



Large beds may have their centres filled up with the shrubs and 

 then banded round with Myosotis, Alyssums, Arabis, Aubrietias, 

 Daisies, &c. We are now filling in beds with winter and spring things, 

 part of the design having stood all the summer and will be retained, 

 with Myosotis dissitiflora and alpestris, Silene pendula, and Arabis ; 

 part will also be filled with bulbs. 



A bed in which was a mass of Calceolaria in summer will be filled 

 with "Retinospora pisifera aurea ; a band of Viola cornuta Perfection 

 exists and will remain ; Hyacinths will be inserted M'here a band of 

 white-leaved Geraniums was killed out ; next a band of Festuca glauca 

 remains, and a strip of Tulips will be inserted between the Festuca 

 and the edging of Sedum glaucum. Iberis sempervirens and one we 

 have called Tenoreana are excellent shrub-like plants for edging beds 

 of dwarf shrubs, especially the latter, and are sheets of white and 

 pinkish white in early spring. 



A pink form of the native Lamium album maculatum is a beautiful 

 addition to the winter and spring garden : the purple is well enough 

 known and also the white form, but this is of the same shade as 

 Saponaria, which with its variegated leaves makes it a very striking 

 plant in early spring. It may possibly be met with in many places in 

 the hedgerows. It associates well with Myosotis and Arabis, or be- 

 tween lines of Myosotis and Aubrietia : but we are sliding into spring 

 gardening, when we meant to confine ourselves mainly to winter bed- 

 ding. The Squire's Gardexer. 



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We desire to introduce this subject as surreptitiously as possible. It is 

 one which is supposed to have the same effect upon an editor as a red 

 rag has upon a bull. It is a weU known fact that last year the edi- 



