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CHAPTER XIX. 



FLOWERING AND OENAMENTAL PLANTS. 



The effectiveness of liardy perennial or annual flower- 

 ing plants in the garden depends, as with woody plants, 

 much upon their position and arrangement. In the nat- 

 ural style of garden making, the front parts of tree and 

 shrubbery borders, as well as in the midst of these, in the 

 bare spaces, are suitable places for these or flowers of 

 every kind. Some lines of bright annuals, or low, hardy, 

 variegated grass, or any other low growing plants that 

 are suitable for edging, may be placed next to the grass, 

 while in the bays of the shrubbery line, and also further 

 back, showy, hardy plants, bulbs, bright, seed-grown 

 things, as well as tender, perpetual blooming flowers may 

 be set. There are many little hardy flowers that thrive 

 directly under the shade of shrubs, and some of these 

 may be introduced to become naturalized in such places. 

 All kinds may be grouped promiscuously, or for the sake 

 of variety in some places, be arranged in lines lengthwise 

 or in any other direction. Combinations of diflereut 

 classes of ornamental plants may easily be so managed in 

 borders, as to render them very attractive in flowers and 

 foliage from early spring until freezing weather in the 

 fall. Different borders and beds on the same ground 

 may be planned to differ in arrangement and style of 

 expression. Even if the free-flowering, tender plants 

 that must be newly bedded each year, were omitted from 

 these collections, a selection of hardy plants alone could 

 be employed, that would, together with flowering shrubs, 

 never allow the beds to be without flowers or attractive- 

 ness during the growing season. 



In the use of seed-grown plants in such places, or in 

 any place, if the massing plan were more generally ob- 



