FLOW ER-GARDENS. 
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FLOWER-POTS. 
the centre) will be drier than those 
on the sides,—they will grow with 
less vigour in dry seasons, and with 
too much vigour in moist seasons, 
if they are too much elevated ; so 
that the plants in the garden will 
never produce a uniform surface 
throughout. Some beds in flower- 
gardens of this description are en- 
tirely filled with Roses, which are 
often pegged down and kept low; 
and other beds are filled with low 
evergreen shrubs, or with deciduous 
shrubs which have conspicuous 
flowers, such as Rhododendrons, 
Azaleas, &c. For every garden of 
this kind there is, or ought to be, a 
basin of water, as well for effect, as 
for watering the plants; and if the 
garden be on a large scale, there 
may be statues, vases, open and 
covered seats, rustic baskets con- 
taining plants, rockwork, and a 
variety of other objects; but these 
require to be introduced with great 
caution, and afford an excellent op- 
portunity for a lady to exercise her 
taste in their arrangement. In fact, | 
these ornaments, if not well man- 
aged, destroy the simplicity and 
elegance of the garden, and do more | 
harm than good. When flower- | 
gardens are close to the house, and | 
are intended to be very highly kept, 
the beds are often surrounded with 
a low frame-work of wire or trellis- | 
work, so as to give them the effect 
of baskets of flowers; and this has 
sometimes a very good effect. Very 
often handles of wire-work are ap- 
pended to these baskets, over which | 
are trained beautiful climbing plants, 
_ such as the Maurandyas and Lo- 
phospermums, which flower abun- 
dantly during the whole summer. 
The architectural flower-garden, | 
or Italian garden, always adjoins 
the house, and it is bordered and | 
separated from the rest of the plea- 
sure-grounds by an architectural 
parapet or wall—see Fences. It 
eonsists of beds symmetrically ar- 
| tiles. 
ranged, with gravel or pavement 
between ; and the beds are border- 
ed or edged with stone. In other 
respects, these gardens are treated 
like the old English flower-garden. 
Terrace-gardens are merely arch- 
itectural-gardens, formed on plat- 
forms adjoining the house, on one 
or more levels, each level being 
supported by a terrace-wall; but 
as they are chiefly adapted for 
mansions and places of consider- 
able extent, where of course a re- 
gular gardener must be kept, it 
does not appear necessary to en- 
large on them here. 
For the mode of designing and 
laying out flower-gardens, see 
PLANs. 
FLowerinc Fern. — Osmiinda 
regalis—A native of Britain, and 
one of the largest and handsomest 
of the British Ferns. 
FLtowerine Raspserry.— Rubus 
odoratus. 
FLowerine Russ.—Bitomus um- 
belldtus—A British aquatic plant, 
producing pink flowers. When cul- 
tivated, the seeds should be sown 
'in loamy soil at the bottom of the 
aquarium or pond where itis to grow, 
or in a pot plunged to a considera- 
ble depth ; or it may be increased 
by dividing the root. 
FLowWER-pors are commonly of 
a red porous kind of earthenware, 
which is much better for the plants 
than the more ornamental kinds 
sold in the china-shops: which 
from being glazed, and consequently 
not porous, are apt to retain the 
moisture so as to be injurious to the 
roots of the plants. When china 
flower-pots are used, they should 
have the bottom pierced with sev- 
eral holes instead of one; and they 
should be particularly well drained, 
by being filled to, at least, a quarter 
of their depth with pieces of broken 
Glazed pots are most suita- 
_ble for plants kept in balconies, 
| where they are much exposed to 
