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bower of Ivy, under and through which a walk leads to the pleasure- 

 grounds ; when the fountain in the centre of the garden (4) is play- 

 ing, a peep of it can be obtained from the pleasure-grounds along 

 a walk of considerable length. The lines marked 6 are gravel-walks 

 about 5 feet in width, and the remainder of the groundwork is 

 turf, with the flower-beds set down on it. In planting this garden, 

 Mr Cole made a most judicious and excellent use of foliaged plants, 

 and the result was a charming piece of soft, inviting, decorative gar- 

 dening. The four beds round the fountain, forming the segments 

 of a circular line, were thus filled : In one of them Coleus Verschaffeltii 

 formed the lines of a chain of diamonds, the diamonds being filled with 

 Mrs Pollock. In the centre of each (and there were four of them) was 

 a fine plant of the silvery -leaved Centaurea candidissima. The 

 angles outside the diamond lines were filled with Gnaphalium lana- 

 tum — a most useful silvery-foliaged bedding plant when kept within 

 due bounds — and edged with blue Lobelias. The opposite bed had 

 Mrs Pollock forming the diamond lines, and the Coleus the central 

 masses, with the Centaurea as before. The angles were filled with blue 

 Lobelia, edged with Echeveria secunda glauca. The reverse of these 

 segment beds had circles of Coleus Verschaffeltii resting in a ground- 

 work of Centaurea candidissima. One of them had a Dalkeith chain 

 of golden feather Pyrethrum, edged with blue Lobelia. In the other 

 the relative positions of these two were reversed, as the Pyrethrum here 

 became the outer edging. The mode of planting the four beds behind 

 these has now to be stated. In shape they represent irregular triangles 

 with the points scolloped out. One had an oval centre of Centaurea 

 gymnocarpa; round thisGrieve's Culford Rose Zonal Pelargonium, which 

 was wanting in freedom of bloom ; this was bounded by a diamond line 

 of Iresine Herbstii, and next a diamond line of Golden-leaf Pelargo- 

 nium, one of the very best of the golden-leaved section. The angles 

 were filled in with blue Lobelia, and the whole edged with Gnaphal- 

 nium lanatum. The next bed had a cross of Coleus Verschaffeltii in 

 the centre ; next this similar lines of Flower of Spring Variegated 

 Pelargonium, with blue Lobelia filling up the angles. The reverse 

 bed had a cross of Iresine Herbstii, with Golden-leaf Pelargonium 

 instead of Flower of Spring, and still edged with blue Lobelia. 

 The last of this quartette of beds was to some extent the reverse of 

 that first described. Centaurea gymnocarpa formed diamonds in the 

 middle, and round it were diamond lines of Golden-leaf Pelargonium ; 

 then similar lines of Coleus Verschaffeltii, and next this Mrs Pollock 

 variegated Zonal Pelargonium similarly planted ; and, as before, the 

 angles filled in with blue Lobelia. 



The two circular beds in the corners at the right of the plan were 



