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derson, and many others too numerous to detail. The floricultural 

 public are greatly indebted to the four first named gentlemen for 

 their industry and success in raising the very splendid productions 

 they have done. 



I have been much pleased with the very just descriptions of the 

 recent new fine kinds, as given in several late numbers of the Flo- 

 ricultural Cabinet. Never were so many strikingly fine kinds 

 brought out in one season as have been this year : they are deserving 

 a place in every greenhouse, &c. 



ARTICLE VI. 



A METHOD OF SHOWING THE EFFECT OF BOX, OR OTHER 

 EDGINGS, IN FLOWER GARDENS. 



BY T. W., WALTON NUUSIiRY, LIVERPOOL. 



To those who intend laying out plots of ground as flower gardens in 

 the old Dutch or Italian style, with box or other edgings, — a style of 

 gardening I should be glad to see more prevalent, especially where 

 the limits are confined, from the simple fact that regular forms are 

 always pleasing, and as many beautiful designs for such gardens 

 have appeared in the Cabinet from time to time, — perhaps the fol- 

 lowing method of showing the effect of such a garden may not prove 

 uninteresting. 



Having fixed on a design, the ground is dug, made smooth and 

 level ; the figures are traced thereon in the usual way with exactness. 

 Instead of pegs, I take a barrowful or two of light-coloured sand, 

 which is strewed on the traced lines about an inch in thickness, in a 

 neat and compact manner : this in a few minutes becomes white and 

 dry. The effect is really very pleasing. You have as it were a 

 garden with edgings of sand, which, contrasted with the dark soil, 

 looks as handsome as box itself. By this method the unsightlincs's 

 of a multitude of pegs is avoided, which to most minds, especially 

 where the figures are complicated, appears intricate and perplexing, 

 to say nothing of the difference in the labour. The effect of a large 

 garden may be shown in a beautiful manner by the above method in 

 a very short time. Another material advantage is its permanency : 



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