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enough to allow plenty of air to reach the tubs, 

 and the tubs too must be set only halfway in 

 the earth. 



I have already said that on the whole masses 

 of congenial colors are to be preferred to the 

 mixture of many kinds. But so far as concerns 

 the sequence of the Howers, not to be too dis- 

 cursive, I will only give the example of the way 

 I have treated the specimens I have mentioned, 

 the fan (f), the star with the "H" (/), the 

 quadruple square (^), in the blue flower garden, 

 and the cornucopia [h). 



The fan [e] comes first into bloom with yel- 

 low crocus. Then it is planted with gillyflower 

 so that they make rings of various colors all over 

 it, with a dark point in the middle, from which 

 the shadings are graduated to the circumfer- 

 ence. 



The same device is lastly devoted to Aster 

 chinensis^ which blossoms right into autumn, 

 when our stay in the country is at an end as a 

 rule. Generally only lovers of hunting are left 

 behind, who demand no flowers; only the hares. 

 The two round baskets next the fan are planted 

 first with dark double golden wallflowers and 

 later with Lobelia card'malis. 



The star opposite the fan begins with double 

 tulips ; after these come bright red pelagoniums 

 planted from pots, which also last till autumn. 

 Four baskets surround this device also, which 

 begins with bright-colored mixed single tulips, 

 but for second flowering have two with £//- 



