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the kitchen garden, and is consequently eligible for but few situations ; whilst 

 one who, along with his various other avocations, has carefully studied the 

 cultivation and management of plants, and has not lost sight of mental 

 improvement, is eligible for any situation. As is sufficiently proved in our 

 own day, he may even rise to a very high standing both in respectability and 

 in fame. 



General Flower Garden. 

 This is expected to be furnished with every possible variety of interesting 

 herbaceous perennials and other flowers, and, therefore, every place with any 

 pretensions to a garden should be provided with one of this description. It 

 would be well if every proprietor would allow the introduction of all the most 

 pleasing varieties of plants, rather than content himself with the monotonous 

 repetition of the common kinds, so frequently to be met with in places where 

 we look for choicer specimens. 



American Garden. 

 This is so termed from its being principally furnished with such 

 American plants as bear our climate ; and, as these plants are grown in peat 

 or bog soil, many of our own English productions being grown in similar 

 soil, the two are often associated together, and erroneously classed under the 

 common name of American plants. This kind of garden may be said to be 

 adorned, principally, with beautiful flowering shrubs, though several herba- 

 ceous plants also belong to it. Great caution is required in the arrangement 

 of the plants, as it too often happens that the larger and smaller plants are 

 crowded together in one bed. For instance, the common or large growing 

 kinds of rhododendrons are frequently made the occupants of small beds, 

 along with smaller growing plants, so that, when the former take to growing 

 freely, the destruction of the latter is almost certain. Care must, therefore, 

 be taken not to associate the large kinds of rhododendrons, azalias, &c, with 

 plants of a delicate and more hmited habit. All that is required is to grow 

 the two sorts separately, according to their respective habits. The small ones 

 will be best suited to small beds ; and the large rhododendrons and azalias 

 may form masses or beds, exhibiting only one plant of each of the most rare 

 and beautiful varieties. The common kinds may, also, very properly be intro- 



