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CHAPTER II. 



ON LAYING OUT. 



THERE are many modes of adorning a small piece 

 of ground, so as to contain gay flowers and plants-, 

 and appear double its real size. By covering every 

 wall or palisade with monthly roses and creepers of 

 every kind, no space is lost, and unsightly objects 

 even contribute to the genaral effect of a " Plais- 

 aunce." The largest flowers, such as hollyhocks, 

 sunflowers, &c., look to the best advantage as a 

 back ground, either planted in clumps, or arranged 

 singly. Scarlet lychnis, campanula, or any second- 

 sized flowers, may range themselves below, and so 

 in graduated order, till the eye reposes upon a fore- 

 ground of pansies, auriculas, polyanthuses, and in- 

 numerable humbler beauties. Thus all are seen in 

 their order, and present a mass of superb coloring 

 to the observer, none interfering with the other. 

 The hollyhock does not shroud the lowly pansy 

 from displaying its bright tints of yellow and pur- 

 ple ; neither can the sturdy and gaudy sunflower 

 hide the modest double violet or smartly clad ane- 

 mone from observation. Each flower is by this 

 mode of planting distinctly seen, and each con- 

 tributes its beauty and its scent, by receiving the 

 beams of the sun in equal proportions. 



If the trunk of a tree stands tolerably free from 

 deep overshadowing branches, twine the creeping 



