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glass structures are altogether out of place in the 

 Topiary garden. But provision should be made for 

 them in some way or other, and as a rule some place 

 can be found for the erection of a few houses without 

 clashing with the other features of the garden. 



If the garden has been laid out on a large scale, and 

 contains a quantity of large beds, as regards the work 

 of arranging and deciding what each bed is to be planted 

 with, the person who is responsible will have to be 

 guided by circumstances to a certain extent according 

 to the accommodation that is already at hand, or is to 

 be provided for the raising of bedding plants. 



In every garden, and especially in the Topiary garden, 

 the beds should be so arranged that they will yield as 

 far as possible a continual show of bloom for as many 

 months of the year as flowers will bloom in the garden. 

 A continual supply of bloom for the longest possible 

 time is the principal object to be aimed at. Of course in 

 the arrangement of the beds it will be necessary to plant 

 some of them with herbaceous plants ; others may be 

 planted with roses ; as both roses and herbaceous plants 

 look well in any garden. But in the using of perennial 

 plants of any kind, I would strongly recommend that 

 they should be planted more in the background and in 

 large borders, instead of in the more important beds in 

 the garden. These last should be reserved for bedding 

 plants, as no matter whether roses, or any other kind 

 of plants, be used, the same brilliant and desirable effect 

 can never be obtained as is to be had from the more 

 showy and more easily massed bedding plants. In the 

 planting of herbaceous or any variety of plants, excep- 

 tional care should be taken to keep the plants far enough 

 away from the trees, so as to avoid all injurious effects 

 from the summer's growth coming in contact with 

 the yews. If the practice of planting close up to the 

 trees is followed, on purpose to avoid bare patches in 



