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Design for a Flower Garden. 



part, and is certainly one of the best of the kind we have ever 

 seen. We deem it well worthy of imitation by all who appre- 

 ciate beauty, variety and harmony in arrangement of flowers. 



"Two things are necessary to the beauty of a flower 

 garden, — harmony and variety. Harmony consists in agree- 

 ment of form, likeness of size, and relation of color ; variety, 

 in the indefinite diversity of vegetative existence. If there 

 is variety merely, the garden is strange, extraordinary, fan- 

 tastic, — it is not fine. If harmony alone is displayed, then 

 it is monotonous, dull, and wearisome. But in the happy 

 combination of the two, resides its power to awaken agree- 

 able sensations and impart delight. This union of harmony 

 and variety is well exemplified in the flower garden of the 

 Duchess of Bedford, at Camden Hill, represented in the an- 

 nexed engraving. 



Fig. 37. Plan of the Flower Garden at Camden Hill. 



The following is a list of the plants employed : — 



1. Nierembergia calycina, white. 



2. Lobelia gracilis, blue. 



3. Verbena Sabina, purple. 



4. Lobelia lutea, yellow. 



5. Anagallis monelli, blue. 



6. Verbena melindreg, scarlet. 



FIRST CIRCLE. 



7. Anagallis monelli, blue. 



8. Lobelia lutea, yellow. 



9. Verbena melindres, scarlet. 



10. Nierembergia gracilis, M'hite. 



11. Lobelia unidentata, deep purple. 



12. Lobelia lutea, yellow. 



