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adapted for keeping up the harmony of the 

 whole. In all cases, therefore, where the gar- 

 den is large enough to show a formal figure to 

 advantage, the artificial mode of arrangement 



should be adopted ; and, wherever it is adopted, 

 the beds should be planted so as to form masses 

 of different-coloured flowers. Where, however, 

 the garden ground is very small, and no part 

 of it can be set entirely apart for flowers, no 

 attempt should be made to produce masses of 

 colour in regular forms; but the plants should 

 be arranged along the borders singly, or in 

 patches, as may be best adapted to display the 

 individual beauties of each. In some cases, 

 flowers may be planted in borders, so as to 

 form a miniature representation of the Natural 

 System of Botany. For instance, first there 

 might be planted patches of ranunculuses and 

 anemones, intermixed with flos Adonis, lark- 

 spurs, columbines, monk's-hood, and other 

 plants belonging to KanunculaceaB ; the spring- 

 flowering kinds being mixed with the autumnal 

 ones, so as to produce a succession of flowers. 

 Next should be planted the different kinds of 

 fumitory and the poppies, to represent the order 

 Papaveraceae; and next, stocks, wallflowers, 

 and other Cruciferous plants. These might be 

 followed by mignonnette, violets and hearts- 

 eases, pinks and carnations, the different kinds 

 of flax, the mallows ; and, in short, the plan 

 might be easily carried through all the orders 

 containing ornamental herbaceous plants, takino- 

 care to choose such species as would flower in 

 succession. In this manner, the beds might 

 be arranged, by mixing perennials and annuals, 



