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REMARKS. 



On laving out a small Plot ok Ground, with a List of the most 

 ornoibktal Plants to cultivate therein for each Month.— There are 

 many modes of adorning a small piece of ground, so as to contain gay flowers 

 and plants, and appear double its real size. By covering every wall or palisade 

 with monthly roses and creepers of every kind, no space is lost, and unsightly 

 objects even contribute to the general effect of a <• Plaisaunce. The larger 

 flowers, such as hollyhocks, sunflowen^&c, look to the best advantage as a 

 back ground, either 'planted in clumps, or arranged singly. Scarlet lychnis, 

 campanula, or any second-sized flowers, may range themselves below, and so m 

 graduated order, till the eye reposes upon a foreground of pansies, auriculas, 

 polyanthuses, and innumerable humbler beauties. Thus all are seen in then- 

 order, and present a mass of superb colouring to the observer, none interfering 

 with the other. The hollyhock does not shroud the lowly pansy from display - 

 ino-'its bright tints of yellow and purple ; neither can the sturdy and gaudy 

 sunflower hide the modest double violet or smartly clad anemone from observa- 

 tion. Each flower is by this mode of planting distinctly seen, and each con- 

 tributes its beauty and its scent, by receiving the beams of the sun in equal 



F °If the trunk of a tree stands tolerably free from deep overshadowing branches, 

 twine the creeping rose, the late honeysuckle or the everlasting pea round its 

 stem, that every inch of ground may become available. The tall naked stem of 

 the voting ash 'looks well festooned with roses and honeysuckles. Wherever 

 creeping flowering plants can live, let them adorn every nook and corner, stem, 

 wall, and post : they are elegant in appearance, and many ot them, partinularly 

 clematis, are delicious in fragrant scent. 



If flowers are planted in round or square plots, the same rule applies in ar- 

 ranging them. The tallest must be placed in the centre, but I recommend a 

 lady to banish sunflowers and hollyhocks from her plots, and consign them to 

 broad borders against a wall, or in clumps of three and three, as a screen 

 against the 'north, or against any unsightly object. Their large roots draw so 

 much nourishment from the ground, that the lesser plants suffer, and the sod 

 becomes quickly exhausted. Like gluttons, they should feed alone or their 

 companions will languish in starvation, and become impoverished. I he wren 

 cannot feed with the vulture. 



The south end or corner of a moderate flower garden should be hxed upon tor 

 the erection of a root house, which is not an expensive undertaking, and which 

 forms a picturesque as well as a most useful appendage to a lady's parterre. 

 Thinnings of plantations, which are every where procured at a very moderate 

 charge, rudely shaped and nailed into any fancied form, may supply all that is 

 needful to the little inclosure ; and a thatch of straw, rushes, or heather, will 

 prove a sure defence to the roof and back. There, a lady may display her taste 

 by the beauty of the flowers which she may train through the rural frame- 

 work. There, the moss-rose, the jessamine, the honeysuckle, the convolvulus, 

 and many other bright and beautiful flowers, may escape and cluster around her, 

 as she receives rest and shelter within their graceful lattice-work. There, also, 

 may be deposited the implements of her vocation ; and during the severe 

 weather, its w&n» precincts will protect the finer kinds of carnations pinks, 

 auriculas, &c. which do not bear the heavy rains, or host of lengthened dura- 

 tion, without injuring the plant. 



Flowers are divided into three classes :— annuals, biennials, and perennials. 

 Annuals are those flowers which are raised from seeds alone, in the spring, 

 ar.d which die in the autumn. They are again divided into three classes ;— the 

 tender and more curious kinds : the less tender or hardier kinds ; and the har- 

 diest and common kinds. 



lliennials are those flowers which are produced by seed, bloom the second . 

 year, and remain two years in perfection : after which they gradually dwindle 

 and die away. . . _ 



Some sorts, however, of the biennials afford a continuation oi plants by on- 

 sets, slips, and cuttings of the tops, and by layers and pipings, so that, though 



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