PLANS FOR MiQTCBR GARDENS. 11 



with retired walks ; 5, centre bed ; 6, oval beds ; 7, large beds j 

 8, border beds ; 9, exterior beds. The entire may be enclosed by- 

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well-clipped hedges of Thorn, Privet, Laurel, or Beech. For 

 edgings, Box is preferable for neatness and cleanliness ; but Gen- 

 tianellas, blue and white Campanulas, Evening Primroses, and 

 Polyanthuses, one kind around each bed, would have a very pleas- 

 ing effect, from the one unbroken line. The young floricultural 

 tyro — as I presume your Cabinet is written equally for the im- 

 provement of the mere novice in gardening as the more experienced 

 veteran — in so circumscribed a plan, might find it difficult, at the 

 commencement, to select a very moderate variety of annuals and 

 perennials, from the extensive catalogues supplied by your re- 

 spective valuable correspondents. I shall suggest to such the 

 names of a few varieties, possessing perfume and brilliancy of 

 colours, rejecting all diminutive flowers formerly cultivated : first 

 premising, that flowers cultivated in oval beds have a considerably 

 more pleasing effect, from the contrast of colours, than when one 



