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sow, we shall, after that time, have every year some- 

 thing to reward and delight us : this has been my 

 practice with the perennial bulbous-rooted flowers, 

 and in a few years I was fully rewarded." 



In the compost recommended, the bulbs of Fritil- 

 laries prosper ; the dwarf kinds should be planted at 

 about four inches in depth, and at four inches apart in 

 the row; those of the Dogs-tooth Violet, at four inches 

 in depth, and at two inches apart in the row. The 

 Crown Imperial should beat six or eight inches depth ; 

 they should all be taken up every second year, as 

 soon as the leaves are withered, and replanted in two 

 months at farthest, recollecting in the intermediate 

 year, to top-dress the beds before winter, with virgin 

 earth. 



REMARKS. 



In any flower garden or shrubbery that has suffi- 

 cient space for it, I would suggest the erection of a 

 rude piece of rock work, which, when raised with 

 taste and judgment, presents a pleasing contrast to 

 the formal parterre. Besides, it may be rendered 

 really useful as well as ornamental, by affording a 

 position for those dwarf shrubs and plants, which 

 would be overwhelmed amidst the luxuriant vegeta- 

 tion of the flower borders. Here they may display 

 their miniature beauties to the greatest advantage. 

 I shall tell you how to form a piece of rock work, 

 which, according to the circumstances of space, &c. 

 may be either a mound, bristling with rocks on every 

 side, with a winding path for ascent, or a pigmy 

 clump for Lilliputian plants. 



As to shape, it may be of any that will present 

 the least artificial aspect, and this must be deter- 



