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THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



Mr. Frank Miles on the Flower Border. — Among the 

 first to see the merits of effectively carpeting borders, and who made 

 the border suggested in my Hardy Flowers, was the late Frank 



Flower border against house. 



Miles, the artist, and an excellent flower gardener. His own account 

 of his work I give here. 



If we are to have mixed borders of herbaceous plants, one thing is quite 

 certain — we can never go back to the borders of our ancestors in which every 



