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GABDEN MANAGEMENT. 



rogeneous mixtures of colour, that perplex, distract, and weary our sense 

 of vision. In their zeal to relieve masses of colour by their complementaries, 

 many seem to overlook the fact, that this implies the existence of masses to 

 be relieved. A bed of scarlet verbenas a yard square requires no white 

 baud to tone it down. An entire bed of white of the same size, four feet 

 distant, will do this more effectively. Distinctness of character, and an 

 increase of beauty without confusion, would then be the result. These 

 remarks are not, however, appUcable to large beds ; nor single regular or 

 irregular beds, on garden or lawn. Generally, perhaps these, especially of a 

 circular form, ai'e most effective planted on the band or ring principle. 



C2057. The best examples of this kind of planting I have ever seen were also 

 at Putteridge Bury. A double row of circular beds, raised in the centre, bounds 

 one of the main walks for a considerable distance. The whole of them were 

 furnished with starers in the centre, and, when furnished, assumed the shape 

 of a cone rising to a sharp point in the middle. The following is the furnish- 

 ing of a dozen of them for the years 1859, 1860, and 1861 : — 



-2058. Two rows of circular beds on the lawn were planted in the following 

 manner in 1859 : — 



1. Centre, Scarlet Geranium. 



Verbena, Defiance. 



„ Mrs. Holford. 

 Xext to grass, Yerbeua, — Ariosto, 



2. Centre, Light Fuchsia. 



Salmon Nosegay Geranium. 

 Scarlet Ivy-leaf Geranium. 

 I^ext to grass. Golden Chain. 



3. Centre, Nasturtium Lobbii. 



Yellow Chrysanthemum. 

 Purple Pentstemons. 

 Cuphea, a slaty centre. 



4. Centre, Dark Fuchsia. 



Ageratum mexicanum. 



Punch Geranium. 



Cineraria maritima. 

 o. Centre, Tall Geranium. 



Punch Geranium. 



Calceolaria angustifolia. 

 ,, Indian Chief. 

 6. Centre, Brugmansia. 



Scarlet Salvia fulgen3. 



Blue Salvia patens. 



Calceolaria amplexicaulis. 



The centre 



7. Centre, Brugmansia Knightii. 

 Ageratums. 



Calceolaria angustifolia. 

 Geranium, — Flower of the Day. 



8. Centre, Tall Geranium. 

 Scarlet Geranium. 

 Prince of Orange Calceolaria. 

 Heliotrope, — Voltairianum. 



9. Centre, Dark Fuchsia. 

 Ageratum. 



Salmon Nosegay Geranium. 

 Cineraria maritima. 



10. Centre, Tall Geranium. 

 Scarlet Geranium. 

 Calceolaria, — Yellow Prince of 



Orange. 

 Perilla nankinensis. 



11. Centre, — Light Fuchsia. 

 Trentham Rose Geranium. 

 Purple Nosegay Geraniuui. 

 Golden Chain. 



12. Centre, Scarlet Geranium. 

 Terbena, — Lord Kaglan. 



I ,, Mrs. Holford. 



I „ Custine. 



plants are standards. 



2059. Two i-ows of circular beds as they were planted in 1S60 :— 



1. Centre, Tall Nosegay Geranium. 



Salmon Nosegay "Geranium.^ 

 Jackson's Varipgated. 

 Next to grass, Hackness Geranium. 



2. Centre, Dark Fuchsia. 



Calceolaria, — Indian Chief. 

 „ Caie. 



Next to grass, Geranium, — Brilliant. 



3. Centre, Brown's compactum Geran. 



Flower of the Day. 



Next to grass, Golden Chain. 

 Centre, Dark Fuchsia. 



Salmon Nosegay Geranium. 



Scarlet Variegated Geranium, 

 Next to grass. Pink Nosegay Gera« 



nium. 

 Centre, Brugmansia.' 



Ageratum variegatum. 



Ageratum, blue. 



Calceolaria amplexicaulis. 



