THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



OCTOBER, 1st, 1838. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 



ON THE PLANNING AND FORMATION OF ORNAMENTAL 

 FLOWERBEDS. 



BY MR. G. E. TURNER, MONKTON FARLBIGH, NEAR BATH. 



I never enter a flower garden without pleasure, or leave it 

 without satisfaction. Each little plant has beauties and attrac- 

 tions, which never fail to captivate and delight. In the ex- 

 cellent pencilling, and the delicate hues of a flower, I can trace 

 the eternal wisdom and unbounded benevolence of its Creator, 

 and read and read 



" And read again, and still find something new, 

 •' Something to amuse, something to instruct." 



And it is because I have myself derived such refined grati- 

 fication from floricultural amusements, that I would humbly 

 contribute my mite, to the valuable treasury of useful and prac- 

 tical information, whose benefits are distributed to the public, 

 through the widely circulating medium of the Floricultural Cabi- 

 net. 



Now, although in every garden each individual flower is the 

 immediate and proper object of our admiration, yet it must be 



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