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tion is judicious, is highly brilliant. Each bed, in its season, 

 presents a mass of blossoms, and the contrast of rich colors 

 is much more striking than in any other arrangement. No 

 plants are admitted that are shy bloomers, or which have 

 ugly habits of growth, meagre or starved foliage; the aim 

 being brilliant effect, rather than the display of a great 

 variety of curious or rare plants. To bring this about more 



FIG. 25. A BIRD BATH AS A GARDEN ORNAMENT 



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 beds, 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 dispos- 

 ing the plants in an English garden, we copy the description 

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

 the beds being cut out of the smooth turf. 



"As a general principle for regulating the plants in 

 this figure, the winter and spring flowers ought, as 

 much as possible, to be of sorts which admit of being 



