18 FLOWER-GARDENING. 



admit, it should be located before the windows exposed to a 

 southern or south-eastern aspect. The principle on which it is 

 laid out ought to be that of exhibiting a variety of color and 

 form, so blended as to produce one beautiful whole. In a 

 small flower-garden, viewed from the windows of a house, this 

 effect is best produced by beds, or borders, formed side by 

 side, and parallel to the windows whence they are seen, as in 

 that position the colors show to the best advantage. In a 

 retired part of the garden, a rustic seat may be formed, over 

 and around which grape-vines, or honeysuckles, and other 

 sweet and ornamental creepers and climbers, may be trained on 

 trellises, which will afford a pleasant rural retreat. 



CONSTRUCTING A ROCKERY. , 



In extensive pleasure-grounds a rockery, formed of rough 

 stones, and rich light soil, may be erected in imitation of a 

 mountain, on which may be cultivated various plants natives 

 of mountainous districts, and such indigenous plants as are 

 calculated for the situation; also herbaceous plants; procum- 

 bent and trailing, such as Mesembryanthemums, Climbing Cor- 

 dydalis, the various species of Silene of Catch-fly, Gypsophila, 

 Lotus, Ricota or Syrian Honesty, Godetia, etc. These, being 

 interspersed with dwarf plants of different species, as Mountain 

 Lychnis, Violets, Daisies, etc., and so arranged as to cover a 

 great proportion of the rocky surface, must necessarily produce 

 a very pleasing effect. 



Although the greatest display is produced by a general 

 flower-garden that is, by cultivating such a variety in one bed 

 or border as will insure an almost constant blooming yet 

 bulbous-rooted plants, though essential to the perfection of 

 the flower-garden, lose something of their peculiar beauty 

 when not cultivated by themselves. The extensive variety of 

 bulbous roots furnishes means for the formation of a garden, 

 the beauty of which, arising from an intermixture of every 

 variety of form and color, would well repay the trouble of 



