Planting and Bedding 



Bedding-. 



We now arrive at a very interesting phase of gardening, 

 which unfortunately cannot be treated at the length it 

 deserves. A few generalities may, however, be noted. 

 The making of beds and borders and their arrangement 

 in the garden having been already dealt with in writing 

 and figure, it remains for us to point out some of the 

 methods of arranging the plants in these beds in order 

 to give the most pleasing effect for the greatest possible 

 length of time and at the least expense in money and 

 labour. It might be truly stated that bedding of almost 

 any kind is rather an expensive luxury, whether the stuff 

 be bought in or be grown. In speaking of bedding now, 

 it is intended to include all kinds spring bedding, 

 summer bedding, bulb bedding, annuals, perennials, 

 carpet bedding, ribbon borders, massing and grouping, 

 and in fact all cases where flowering and foliage plants 

 are grown in beds and borders for effect. 



Carpet Bedding. 



Of all the various forms of bedding, this is probably 

 the most expensive of all; for it is essential that small 

 dwarf plants be used, and obviously these cannot be 

 planted so widely apart as plants which cover a larger 

 area. Here we have an increase not only in the number 

 of plants required, but in the time it takes to plant them. 

 A couple of plans are appended (Figs. 88, 89), wherein 

 are given some ideas of the arrangement of design in 

 carpet bedding. In private places this form of bedding 

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