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Wherever creeping flowering plants can live, let them adcrn every 

 nook and corner, stem, wall, and post ; they are elegant in ap- 

 pearance, and many of them, particularly clematis, are delicious 

 in fragrant scent. 



If flowers are planted in round or square plots, the same rul< 

 applies in arranging them. The tallest must be placed in thi 

 center, but I recommend a lady to banish sunflowers and holly 

 hocks from her plots, and consign them to broad borders again^. 

 a wall, or in clumps of three and three, as a screen against the 

 north, or against any unsightly object. Their large roots draw 

 so much nourishment from the ground, that the lesser plants suf- 

 fer, and the soil becomes quickly exhausted. Like gluttons, they 

 should feed alone, or their companions will languish in starvation, 

 and become impoverished. The wren cannot feed with the vul- 

 ture. 



The south end or corner of a moderate flower garden should 

 be fixed upon for the erection of a root house, which is not an 

 expensive undertaking, and which forms a picturesque as well as 

 a most useful appendage to a lady's parterre. Thinnings of 

 plantations, which are everywhere procured at a very moderate 

 charge, rudely shaped and nailed into any fancied form, may 

 supply all that is needful to the little inclosure ; and a thatch of 

 straw, rushes, or heather, will prove a sure defense to the roof 

 and back. There, a lady may display her taste by the beauty of 

 the flowers which she may train through the rural frame-work. 

 There, the moss-rose, the jessamine, the honeysuckle, the convol- 

 vulus, and many other bright 'and beautiful flowers, may escape 

 and cluster around her, as she receives rest and shelier within 

 their graceful lattice-work. There, also, may be deposited the 

 implements of her vocation ; and during the severe weather, its 

 warm piecincts will protect (he finer kinds of carnations, pinks. 



