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Fig. 48 is a circular series of eight beds 

 formed on an octagonal plan, with a large ' • 4 • 



vase for flowers in the centre, a width of four 

 feet m lawn around the vase, and the beds, 

 five feet in length, radiating as shown. The 

 plan is suitable for an open space, to give 

 interest to a window view, or to face a 

 porch where the entrance-walk runs paralle' 

 with the house. So many different plants 

 may here be used with good effect, that, 

 whichever we may name, may be bettered 



by a more skillful florist. Yet we will suggest for the widest part 

 of these beds, stools of the eight finest Japan lilies, to be sur- 

 rounded by fall planted bulbs that bloom in April and May, which 

 can be removed by the first of June ; these to be followed by such 

 plants as gladiolus and tuberoses, on the ends nearest the vase, 

 and by the finest eight varieties of compact geraniums in the outer 

 circles. Or the beds may be planted with an entirely fresh variety 

 of flowers every year. 



Fig. 49 is a group of flower-beds suita- 

 ble to place at the end of a walk or at the 

 intersection of diverging walks. A rustic 

 or other vase is here, also, the centre of the 

 group, with four or five feet of lawn around 

 it. The beds a, a, should be filled with 

 flowers that do not exceed six or nine 

 inches in height. The beds b, c, and d, are 

 large enough to allow of considerable vari- 

 ety in their composition. The two smaller 

 ones shoul ' have no plants that grow 

 higher than two feet, while in the middle of 



the bed d, and in the trefoil end, may be planted those which grow 

 from three to five feet m height. 



Fig. 50 (drawn to a scale of one-twelfth of an inch to one foot) 

 requires a larger space 'such as that made by the turn circle of a 

 roadway, or a place where a walk or road describes the segment of 

 a circle with an open lawn on the inside of the curve. A tree might 



