How to manage a Garden 



finds but few adherents. Not only is it considered too 

 expensive, but men's tastes have risen of late years. They 

 look to Nature for their inspirations, for they recognise 

 that it is the beauty of the plants themselves which ought 

 to take the first place of admiration and not their arrange- 

 ment, which is of course wholly and entirely the work of 



FIG. 88. FIG. 89. 



Plans of carpet bedding. 



1. Dot plants. 



2. Antenaria. 



3. Mesembryanthemum. 



4. Yellow Alternanthera. 



5. Red Alternanthera. 



man. In our public parks we often see some pleasing 

 examples of this form of bedding. This may be ac- 

 counted for, not by the fact that those responsible for 

 the bedding are behindhand in their ideas, but rather 

 that the people are not yet ready for the transition, and 

 as every park superintendent knows, he must cater for 

 the tastes of the multitude, not for his own. 



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