26 PEACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 



tunity offers along the course of a walk. In figure 6, the 

 walk divides and passes each side of a bed of choice shrub- 

 bery, while the opposite sides of the walk are planted with 

 some of the select shrubs already named, or others. By 

 the judicious use of flowering shrubs, and the low-grow- 

 ing evergreens, very fine effects may be produced. In 

 figure 7, is a similar but more elaborate plan, which allows 

 of the introduction of flowers in masses ; such an arrange- 

 ment would be very appropriate for a rose-garden. In fig. 

 8, we have a design for ornamenting the point at which 

 two walks unite at right angles. The planting may be of 

 Ivy, Trailing Juniper, and other low-growing Evergreens, 

 upon a ground-work of well-kept grass, or flowers may be 

 introduced. In figure 9, we have a bit of ornamental 

 flower garden at the terminus of a walk. What has been 

 said of the selection of shrubs, etc., in describing the larger 

 designs, will be a sufficient guide in carrying out these 

 smaller plans. 



CHAPTER IV. 



PLANTING OF FLOWER-BEDS. 



Much difference prevails in the modes of planting 

 flower-beds, some holding to the promiscuous intersper- 

 sion of the different plants, others to the ribbon or carpet 

 style of planting, now so general in Europe. If the pro- 

 miscuous system is adopted, care should be taken to dis- 

 pose the plants in the beds so that the tallest plants will 

 be at the back of the bed, if the border is against a wall 

 or background of shrubbery, the others gradating to the 

 front, according to height. In open beds, on the lawn, 

 the tallest should be at the centre, the others grading 



