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JOUENAL OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEK. [ NoTcmber 24, 



On each side of this centre is a large oblong bed, and a 

 smaller one on each side of it. The large bed is 27 feet in 

 length, and 13 J feet in breadth, but the ends instead of 

 being square are protruded and rounded artistically. The 

 sides of these beds are of fine moulded stone 13 inches in 

 height. The large beds were thus fiUed — two dense rows of 



purple Verbena next the stone moulding ; then two fine rows 

 of Flower of the Day Geranium, grown only for the foliace, 

 all the flowers being removed; and the centre was filfed 

 with Trentham Scarlet Geranium, except what was taken 

 up with a sarcophagus-formed vessel, and that was filled 

 with Agapanthus umbellatus. The Trentham Scarlet does 



better than any other scarlet here, though seemingly of the 

 lorn Thumb breed. The smaller beds stood across the 

 Jarger ones, and were we to describe them the same wav, it 

 would be by saying that they also were 13 J feet in width, 

 and 6j feet m length. These were each centered with a 



^tI' ^^'^ ^^^^ ^*^ P"^ Geraniums, with a broad border 

 01 Jjobeba speciosa. 



We have several times expressed perhaps only our pre- 

 judices against concealing the base of statuai-y even by 

 flowers ; but the same objection would not apply to these 

 sarcophagi. There is something not only instructive but 

 pleasing and poetical, in associating the" ideas of our last 

 sleep with beautiful flowers. Few would be inclined to go 

 so far back as to recollect that the name conjured up ideas 



