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'THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



either grouped with others or in families. When all these exhaust 

 the ground or become too crowded, by all means move them and 

 replant, but this is a very different thing from moving all the plants in 

 the flower garden twice a year. 



It would be better every way if, so far as the flower garden is 

 concerned, gardeners were to see what could be done unaided by 

 the hothouse ; but meanwhile the wise man will reduce the expense 

 of glass, labour, fire, repairs, paint, pipes, and boilers to something like 

 reasonable proportions. In presence of the wealth of our hardy 

 garden flora, the promise of which is now such as men never expected 



Flower-borders with grass path between. From a photograph by Mrs. Martin, Bournbrook Hall, Birmingham. 



a few years ago, no one need doubt of making a fair flower garden 

 from hardy plants alone. 



THE TRUE WAY to make gardens yield a return of beauty for 

 the labour and skill given them is the permanent one. Choose some 

 beautiful class of plants and select a place that will suit them, even as 

 to their effect in the garden landscape. Let the beds be planted as 

 permanently and as well as possible, so that there will remain little to 

 do for years. All plants may not lend themselves to this permanent 

 plan, but such as do not may be grown apart for instance, the Poppy 



