252 FLOWERS AND BEDDING PLANTS, 



Fig. 46 is a group of five small 

 FlG ' 46 ' beds on the outside of a circular 



walk ' Na J may be filled with 

 f ur canna plants of sorts from 



three to four feet high ; the beds 

 2, and 2, one with Lady Pollock 

 geranium, and the other with 



some one gorgeous-leaved plant of about the same size ; and beds 



3 and 4 with brilliant trailing flowers. 



FIG. 47. 



Fig. 47 is a group of beds requiring more space, and adapted 

 to the inner side of a curved walk where there is considerable 

 depth of lawn behind. V is a large low vase. The circular ex- 

 tremities a, a, a, may be filled with compact specimens of curious- 

 leaved plants like the Lady Pollock, or mountain-of-snow gera- 

 nium, colleus verschafelti, iresene herbstii, etc., etc. ; or they may 

 be more permanently occupied by such very dwarf evergreens as 

 the Abies nigra pumula, the garden boxwood, or the Andromeda 

 floribunda. The narrow parts of the two beds next to the walks 

 should be occupied by some shrubby little annuals or perennials 

 which do not exceed nine inches in height, and the balance of the 

 beds filled with plants increasing in size towards the vase, none of 

 which, however, should be higher than the top of the vase. The 

 rear bed should be filled in a similar manner, and being further 

 from the walk, may be occupied with showy plants of coarser 

 foliage than the front beds. By an error in the drawing the circu- 

 lar front of the back bed is made further from the vase than the 

 side ones. It should be made larger in the direction of the vase, 

 and have its corners truncated like the others. 



