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flower-beds, or as separate shrubs in the outside 

 garden. Nothing gives greater character to any 

 garden than the occasional introduction of plants^ 

 like these. They are now indeed all the more 

 needed since the old plan of having orangeries 

 has so nearly disappeared. And yet how well 

 worth the trouble the very little trouble that 

 it cost, the orangery always was. Nothing could 

 be more stately than a broad walk, along the 

 sides of which were ranged the orange-trees, each 

 in its huge tub, and each fruit-bearing and flower- 

 ing together. And with the orange-trees would 

 be the white-blossoming myrtles and the Clethra 

 arborea, with its scented sprays, like lily-of-the- 

 valley. 



As regards the Alpine garden, the first thing 

 to be remembered is, that the rockwork on which 

 it is to be formed should look as natural as 

 possible. Nothing can be more hideous than 

 the usua varieties of suburban rockeries, where 

 the intention seems to be to make everything as 

 unnatural and distorted as can well be imagined 

 How well one knows the jagged fragments of 



