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Design for a Floioer Garden. 



superior order."* We have made a slight aUeration, or rather 

 we have omitted a sort of semicircle on one side, which in 

 the original plan made this parterre correspond with the 

 terrace of the adjoining mansion. 



The plan is formed on gravel, with box edging dividing 

 the beds from the walks, and the site on which the parterre is 

 formed, sunk a couple of feet or so below the gravel walk in 

 front of the house. By this arrangement the flowers are 

 better seen from the windows. Trained against the front 

 wall of the house is a plant of Glycine sinensis, with a stem 

 nine inches in diameter. The length of the garden is 160 

 feet, and the width 72 feet. The beds are all numbered, 

 and the following list was furnished by Mr. Constantino, the 

 gardener, which corresponds with the beds. 



1. Verbena, Imperatrice Josephine 

 (blue.) 

 Campanula carpatica alba. 

 Unique geranium. 

 Fancy geraniums, 

 Tom Thumb geranium. 



2. 



3. 

 4. 

 5. 



6. Verbena Princess Alice, (light.) 



7. Calceolaria. 



8. Campanula carpatica, Standard 



rose in the centre, trained 

 down an iron support. 



9. The same. 



10. Tom Thumb geranium. 



11. Fancy geraniums. 



12. Verbena, Princess Alice, (light.) 



13. Calceolaria. 



14. Unique geranium. 



15. Campanula carpatica alba. 



16. Verbena, Vampa, (blue.) 



17. Geranium Diadematum rubes- 



cens. 



18. Heliotrope. 



19. Tom Thumb geranium. 



20. Verbena, Madame Buenzod, 

 (light.) 



21. Calceolaria. 



22. Ageratum. 



23. Same as No. 8. 



24. Geranium, Miss Dolby, (pink.) 



25. Tom Thumb geranium. 



26. Same as No. 25. 



27. Geranium, Miss Dolby, (pink.) 



28. Ageratum. 



29. Tom Thumb geranium. 



30. Heliotrope. 



31. Verbena, Madame Buenzod, 



(light.) _ 



32. Calceolaria. 



33. Geranium Diadematum rubes- 



cens. 



34. Same as No. 8. 



35. Basin, with fountain in centre. 

 As this list is intended for a first rate place in England, 

 where there are all the means and wealth to keep up the 

 richest display by the aid of good gardeners, frames, pits, 

 forcing houses, &c., we have made out the following list 

 which can be substituted for it, and be adopted in any place 



* The design and arrangement of the garden are due to the cultivated and refined 

 taste of Lady Sophia Towers, of Hunismore Lodge. 



