ON THE TULIP. 



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should then be arranged, — Rose, byblomen, bizard across the bed, 

 from the commencement to the end, according to the following plan : 



I. 1. 



II. 2. 

 i 



III. 3. 



IV. J. 

 V. 3. 



VI. 2. 

 VII. 1. 



Or the colours may be arranged [as follows : — Rose, byblomen, 

 bizard, longitudinally, from one end of the bed to the other in the 

 I., IV., and VII. rows ; bizard, rose, byblomen, in the II. and VI. 

 rows ; and byblomen, bizard, rose, in the III. and V. rows, agreeably 

 to the annexed scale of ten rows : 



I. 1. 



II. 2. 



HI. 3. 



IV. -J. 



V. 3. 



VI. 2. 



VII. 1. 



Both these plans will require an equal number of the three classes j 

 tricolours being planted as bizards or byblomens, according as they 

 hear the nearest resemblance to cither class. The superiority of 

 planting according to these methods, over the promiscuous manner, 

 needs only once to be seen by the connoisseur to be appreciated. 



But the arrangement of the colours is not all that is necessary, the 

 heights also must be attended to. The small figures in the above 



