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arrangement. No plants are admitted that are shy bloom- 

 ors, or which have ugly habits of growth, meagre or starved 

 toliage ; the aim being brilliant effect, rather than the 

 display of a great variety of curious or rare plants. To 

 bring this about more perfectly, and to have an elegant 

 show during the whole season of growth, hyacinths and 

 other fine bulbous roots occupy a certain portion of the 

 ueds, the intervals being filled with handsome herbaceous 

 plants, permanently planted, or with flowering annuals and 

 green-house plants renewed every season. 



To illustrate the mode of arranging the beds and disposing 

 the plants in an English garden, we copy the plan and 

 description of the elegant flower-garden, on the lawn at 

 Droipmore, the beds being cut out of the smooth turf. 



" The flower-garden at Dropmore is shown in Fig. 77. 

 In this the plants are so disposed, that when in flower the 

 corresponding forms of the figure contain corresponding 

 colored flowers. The following is a list of the plants which 

 occupy this figure during summer, with the order in which 

 they are disposed : and a corresponding enumeration of the 

 bulbs and other plants which occupy the beds during winter 

 and spring. 



[Fig. 77. The Flower-Garden at Dropmore.l 



