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mond shape, or triangular. Masses of annuals may be so 

 arranged as to make a grand display in the common flow- 

 er-garden. We have seen the walks of an extensive flow- 

 er-garden deeply edged with a wide border of crimson and 

 scarlet Portulacas ; and, throughout the whole garden, 

 all the annuals, and other plants, in fact, were planted in 

 masses. We have never seen a better managed garden 

 than this one. It contained about an acre of ground. 

 Not more than twenty or thirty kinds of annuals were 

 cultivated in the garden, and of this class of plants more 

 than one-half of the ground was filled. They consisted of 

 every variety of Double Balsams, German Asters, Drum- 

 monds, Phlox, Coreopsis, Amaranths, Verbenas, Portu- 

 lacas, Double China Pinks, Petunias, Mignionette, Cocks- 

 combs, Gilli-flowers, etc. 



ON THE CULTURE OF HARDY DECIDUOUS AND 

 EVERGREEN SHRUBS. 



" I like a shrubbery too, it looks so fresh ; 

 And then there is some variety about it. 

 In spring, the Lilac and the Snowball flower, 

 And the Laburnum with its golden strings 

 Waving in the wind ; and when the autumn comes, 

 The bright red berries of the Mountain-ash, 

 With pines enough, in winter, to look green, 

 And siiow that something lives." 



The flower-garden will be incomplete without a shrub- 

 bery. A collection of shrubs and trees, embracing the 

 different ^ 7 arieties to be obtained at our nurseries, will add 

 much to the interest of the pleasure-ground. They should 

 not be planted at regular distances, or in straight lines, as 

 in that way they look too set and unnatural ; but, when 

 grouped together, the various sorts gracefully intermin- 



