OBSERVATIONS 



MARCH. 



This month opens to us a wide field for floral 

 arrangements. Annuals, Biennials, and Perennials, 

 present their names in a crowded list ; good taste, 

 therefore, will be evinced by a judicious selection 

 from them. 



Of the indefinite varieties that deck the surface 

 of the earth, who will presume to hold any in con- 

 tempt ? They are given by the bounty of Provi- 

 dence, for purposes that human skill has not yet 

 been fully able to apply. Yet, the selection rests 

 with us ; and since few are enabled to indulge in 

 such extensive pleasure grounds as to embrace the 

 whole, or even a great proportion, of the variety 

 offered, they must adapt their choice to the extent 

 and circumstances of their gardens. Even the 

 handsomest flowers should be restrained within due 

 bounds, for if permitted to spread, or overgrow the 

 beds or borders in crowded confusion, they give a 

 wild and offensive appearance to the whole ; but 

 where the low-growing ones ' are thinned out, and 

 the higher ones staked and confined to moderate 

 limits, many of them, beautiful in themselves, be- 

 come an ornament instead of an evidence of bad 

 taste and slovenly practice. 



