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GARDEN MANAGEMENT. 



colovirs. A smaller circular patch intermediate between the central circle, 

 filling up the angles, is occupied by No. 3, while Xo. 4 fills up all the 

 remaining space. This was planted as follows : — 



1. Calceolaria amplexicaolis. 



2. Geranium, — Purple Nosegay. 



3. „ Alma (single plants). 



4. That is, the whole of the space not 

 otherwise occupied, called the 

 grouud-colour, — Verbena puichella. 



2045. The planting of this group of beds in 1861 : — 



1. Centre — Scarlet Geranium, ^rith Tren- 



tham Eose ; ring of Flower of the 

 Day, and a ring of Alyssum. 



2. Yellow Calceolaria, edged with Purple 



King Verbena, 



3. Geranium (Excellence), edged with 



Cineraria maritima. 



4. Calceolaria (Crimson King), edged with 



Calceolaria (Prince of Orange), 



5. Mangles' Variegated, edged with Ver- 



bena puichella. 



2046. Another example of this ; — 6 being below the line, and 4 above it. 



1. Calceolaria aurantia multiflora. 



2. Lobelia speciosa. 



3. Variegated Alyssum. 



4. Scarlet Geranium. 



5. Silver Queen Dahlia. 



6. Golden Chain Geranium. 



2047. Generally, only three colours are used for this stylo of planting. 

 Thus :— 



1. Scarlet Geranium. 



2. Yellow Calceolaria. 



3. Lobelia speciosa, or Purple King 

 Verbena. 



2048. Sometimes, too, another row or two may bo run along at both sides 

 of such borders. Thus : — 



4. White Verbena. [ 5. Alma, or Bijou Geranium. 



2049. Almost any design or figure may be worked into a ribbon border, 

 merely by the mode of planting, without the intervention of either edgings or 

 gravel. I have heard of a gardener who had only one large flower-bed, but 

 he converted that single bed into a new geometrical flower-garden every year 

 by his manner of planting alone. The following sketches, with the modes of 

 planting, are not designed to exhaust, but merely to suggest ideas for this 

 mode of treatment. Cutting out the border into spaces is sometimes called 

 lJanel^^p\sintmg ; but the application of the system is endless : — 



TEHEACE EIBBOJT BOEDEB. 



A, Ageratum. B. Scarlet Geranium. C. Calceolaria. D. Cineraria maritima. 

 The zig-zag lines being planted with Perilla. 



