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should feel that no arrangement is arbitrary, but merely a 

 suggestion which he may use with the utmost freedom, only 

 keeping harmony in view. For No. 14, the following may be 

 an acceptable planting arrangement; Border, Mme. Solleroi 

 geranium ; small dots, dwarf scarlet tropffiolum; diamonds, 

 blue lobelia ; crescents, Stevia serrata variegata ; inner 

 border, crimson achyranthes or coleus ; loops, Centaurea 

 gymnocarpa; wedge-shape portions, scarlet geranium. 



Another circular carpet-bed. 



No. 15. Suitable for a corner. Border, red alternanthera; 

 second row, Alternanthera aurea nana ; third row, red 

 alternanthera; center, Echeveria Calif ornica. 



No 16. Border, crimson alternanthera (another border of 

 yellow alternanthera might be placed inside of this) ; ground, 

 Echeveria secunda glauca ; inner border, Oxalis tropaeoloides; 

 center, Alternanthera aurea nana. Or, inner border, Ech- 

 everia Calif ornica; center, crimson alternanthera. 



No. 17. Another bed intended to nil an angle. Its cur\ 7 ed 



