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bushes, after the leaves fall, is a serious objection to them when 

 compared with the cheerful elegance of a well-formed evergreen 

 group at all seasons of the year. The other flower-beds are 

 small, and of the simplest forms. Beds i, i, i, 1 should be filled 

 in spring with bulbous flowers, and later with verbenas, portulaccas, 

 Phlox drummondi, escholtzias, or similar low plants. Beds 2, 2 may 

 have three geraniums in each, the largest variety in the middle. 

 Beds 3 and 5, in the wall-corners, should have some little evergreen 

 vines, say English or Irish ivies, planted in the extreme corner, 

 with heliotrope and mignonette around them. Bed 4 may be 

 planted as suggested in the description of Plate VIII. Beds 

 6, 6, 6, 6 may be filled with four varieties of cannas of about equal 

 height ; 7, 7, and 9 with low bulbs in spring, and later with gladiolii 

 in the centre and petunias or other flowers of similarly brilliant 

 and abundant bloom, around them. Bed 8 to have a mountain-of- 

 snow geranium, or a Wigandia caracasana in the centre, and three 

 robust plants of Colleus verschafelti on the points ; 10 is a mass of 

 cannas; n maybe a bed of hollyhocks, with a tall sort in the 

 centre, and low varieties around it We have merely suggested the 

 flowers for the various beds as a starting-point for persons unfa- 

 miliar with flowers. Most intelligent ladies, as well as gardeners, 

 are more familiar with flower culture than with any other garden- 

 ing art, and will be able to vary the beds from year to year, and to 

 improve on the selections here given. They will also learn by 

 experiment, better than they can be told, the best materials to 

 use in embellishing with flowers and wreathing leaves, the vases 

 near the entrance steps. 



PLATE X. 



A Simple Plan for Planting an Interior Lot huff hundred feet front 

 and three hundred feet deep. 



This plan represents a large mansion on an in-lot two hundred 

 feet front by three hundred feet deep. Plate XI is the same house 

 and lot treated more elaborately. The same differences, carried 

 out on a larger scale, may be observed between these two plans of 



