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next season. In the following February they may be turned out of 

 the pots, the finest bulbs selected for pot cultivation, and the rest 

 planted out in a prepared reserve bed of soil in the garden. The 

 soil of this bed should be about eighteen inches deep and rather 

 sandy. 



Some of these bulbs, after a year's growth, will be strong 

 enough to transplant for flowering into a bed in the flower garden, 

 when they will prove, for late flowering, one of the most attractive 

 of groups. The soil of the bed should be prepared for them after 

 proper drainage is secured. A similar compost to that recommended 

 for pot culture may be used, and plenty of rough material should be 

 mixed through the mass. The bulbs should be taken up every season, 

 for the purpose of removing the offsets, when they may be planted 

 again, and the stock be put into the nursery beds until they become 

 flowering bulbs. By following these rules, a sufficient quantity of 

 flowering bulbs may be obtained in three years to have a bed of each 

 sort. The best time for planting is the end of February or early in 

 March ; but it must be before the bulbs show signs of growth. In 

 arranging a mixed bed, the strongest bulbs of the varieties speciosum 

 and punctatum should occupy the centre ; then the strongest of the 

 variety a Ibum; next the second size speciosum and punctatum; and 

 then the smaller bulbs of album, which is the dwarfest grower. 



WATER SCENERY. 



{Continued from page 296.) 



jjUSTIC waterworks may be introduced in rustic scenes 

 very appropriately, but to dispose rustic forms and pro- 

 portions with propriety and effect demands quite as 

 much taste and judgment as the plan of a grand archi- 

 tectural fountain. If a supply of water can be obtained 

 for a portion of the ground appropriated to ferns, rockeries, and 

 green recesses, it can be made much of, both for the greater display 

 of the sparkling stream and for assisting such of the plants as 

 require it, by leading it about in the form of a rivulet down a suc- 

 cession of cascades, terminating in a rocky pool at the outlet, and 

 this rocky pool may be made bewitchingly beautiful by planting it 

 with burr-reeds, flowering rushes, lady ferns, osmundas, arundos, and 

 other elegant aquatics. Happily, for the possessors of villa gardens, 

 there is no need to call in an architect or engineer for advice on any 

 waterworks of moderate pretensions, for the fitting of a fountain, 

 according to the laws of hydrostatics, is a matter within the capacity 

 of any respectable plumber, and the ornamental work may be ob- 

 tained in imperishable stone, in any and every style, from the most 

 severely classical to the most grotesquely rustic, and sheets of 

 patterns may be obtained through the post by asking for them, and 

 supplying a stamp to frank them through. 



