332 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



The four large irregular beds, except the harrow part form- 

 ing the circle, should be planted as follows : — two beds opposite 

 each other with scarlet geraniums, edged with the variegated- 

 leaved scarlets : the other two beds with blue salvia?, such 

 as patens, azurea, &/C. The circles should be planted with light 

 heliotrope on the salvia beds, and with dark heliotrope on the 

 geranium beds. 



The four small circular beds should be planted two of them 

 opposite to one another, with white verbenas, and the other 

 two with scarlet. 



The eight large beds, angular on one side, should be planted 

 two and two, as follows : — two with yellow lantanas ; the 

 next two with scarlet bouvardias ; the next two with purple 

 lantanas ; and the next last two with bouvardias. 



The row of sixteen circular beds may be planted with ver- 

 benas, beginning at any place and filling one bed with white ; 

 the next with blue ; the next with scarlet, and so on, to the 

 bed first planted. 



The outer row of scollop-formed beds may be a miscella- 

 neous collection of the lowest growing plants, such as verbe- 

 nas, lantanas, pansies, anagallis, plumbago, Oxalis floribmida, 

 lobelia, petunias, (pegging them down to the ground to keep 

 them dwarf,) portulacca of sorts, &c., all arranged so as to con- 

 trast well with the circular beds of verbenas, and the beds of 

 lantanas on the opposite side of the walk, being careful not 

 to bring a white opposite a bed of white verbenas, or a blue 

 against a bed of blue ones ; but to bring scarlet or blue oppo- 

 site to white, and white or scarlet opposite to blue. The ef- 

 fect of the sixteen beds of verbenas will be greatly increased 

 by attention to this. 



We have omitted to say anything about the preparation of 

 the ground. It should be trenched two or three feet deep, 

 and if the soil is not light and rich it should be made so by 

 the addition of leaf mould, peat, very old decayed hotbed 

 manure, &c.; for bedding out plants it must be better prepared 

 than for shrubs and perennials, as the sooner the former take 

 hold of the soil, the quicker will they flower and the longer 

 keep up their beauty ; indeed a bed can scarcely be too well 

 prepared for this purpose. 



