CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR X0VE:^IBER. 



the sorts are seen distinctly when 

 one sort crosses the bed. This 

 does not alhide to tlie hne sorts, 

 which are planted in Fet)ruary, 

 but to the suiplns stock required 

 to increase well, and to give early 

 flowers. The fine sorts are not 

 fit to be risked in the ground 

 through the winter. 



Shrubberies may be dug now 

 where this plan is practised ; but 

 it should only be done in mixed 

 borders, where flowers are planted. 

 The continued digging of the soil 

 destroys the surface roots, greatly 

 to the detriment of the plants. 

 Clumps entirely occupied by shrubs 

 should show no cut edge of raw 

 earth : if they are on grass the 

 grass should grow quite under 

 them ; and if they are surrounded 

 by gravel this should be continued 

 beneath their branches. 



The Beds and Borders may be 

 dressed out now with dwarf ever- 

 greens in pots, which should be 

 plunged below their rims. Make 

 a diversity of them, and in the 

 geometrical garden there is great 

 room for taste. The variety of 

 foliage is immense, and the smaller 

 the plants the better the effect, 

 so that there be enough. Hollies 

 of varied hues, Cedars, Arbor- 

 vita; Yeivs, Berberis, Boxes, varied 

 and green, J later n us, striped and 

 ph\in, and fifty otlier handsome- 

 growing shrubs, which do well in 

 pots, are adapted for this autumn 

 dressing. 



2'he Tulip. — The most important 

 flower that engages the attention 

 of the florist this month is the 

 Tulip. The second week is the 

 latest for planting if we have our 

 choice; and the arrangement of 

 the bulbs for planting is made 

 in boxes which represent the rows 

 on the bed. Tulips are planted 

 in four-feet- wide beds, six inches 



apart every way ; and this gives 

 us seven across the bed. The 

 beds, therei'ore, among common 

 observers, may be said to con- 

 sist of seven rows of whatever 

 length the bed may be ; but the 

 custom is to call the seven which 

 go across the rows; and then the 

 bed is said to consist of so many 

 rows. Thus a bed twenty-five 

 feet long should contain fifty rows. 

 The proper manner of arranging 

 the flowers, in these rows of seven, 

 is to have three pairs of flowers, 

 and a centre odd one ; and Tulips 

 whose natural growth give four 

 difierent heights are used. Those 

 are called first-row flowers which 

 are the most dwarf, and mean out- 

 side-row flowers, such as the flrst 

 and seventh ; second- row flowers 

 are those something taller, and 

 mean second and sixth ; third-row 

 flowers are taller still, and are 

 used for the third and fifth rows ; 

 and middle, or fourth- row flowers, 

 which are the tallest, are used 

 in the centre. But of all these 

 first, second, third, and fourth -row 

 flowers there are three distinct 

 classes, cidled Roses, Byblomens, 

 and Bizarres. The first have white 

 grounds, with red marks of all 

 shades, from crimson and scarlet 

 to pale rose or pink; the second 

 have white grounds, with purple 

 marks, from deep ' ptirple, almost 

 black, to light lilac or lavender ; 

 the third have yellow grounds, 

 with any coloured marks, from 

 nearly black to brown or red. In 

 arranging the flowers, therefore, 

 we should not only have pairs of 

 the same class opposite each other 

 on tlie two sides of the centre, but 

 w^e should have the same flowers — 

 that is, the same varieties— on both 

 sides. One of the oldest rules for 

 planting Tulips was to prevent 

 two of a class coming together in 



