‘y fa 
Ceee eene & 
Fig. 39.—Flower-Garden. 
Fig. 39 will give an idea of a re- 
gular fiower-garden; which may | 
be made architectural by laying the | 
walks with flag-stones, and placing 
fountains and statues in the circles; | 
and fig. 40 is a plan of the flower- 
garden at Dropmore, certainly one 
of the most beautiful in England. 
Other designs may easily be made 
on paper, and transferred to the. 
ground, by dividing the space to be 
laid out imto squares with chalked | 
strings, and making corresponding | 
squares over the plan. ) 
In planting parterres there are | 
two different systems; one is to| 
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PARTERRE. 
Fig. 40.—Dropmore Garden. 
plant only one kind of flower ina 
bed so as that each bed shall bea 
mass of one colour, and the other 
is to plant flowers of different 
colours in the same bed. It is 
almost needless to state that the 
former system is by far the best 
for general and striking effect ; but 
as a parterre is frequently a kind 
of botanic garden, and as in this 
case it is desirable to keep all the 
species of a genus together, flowers 
of all colours must occasionally oc- 
cur in the same bed. In general, 
botanic parterres, should not be 
mixed with parterres for effect, be- 
cause the one kind never fails 
greatly to injure the other. _ 
In planting parterres for general 
effect, the colours should be arrang- 
ed so that those which are adjoining 
is 
