SIMPLER FLOWER GARDEN PLANS. 



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Such a garden may be made in any shape which is convenient for 

 cultivation, for access and for cutting ; but some general throwing of 

 the ground into easily worked beds is desirable. The more free and 

 less hampered with gravel, permanent edgings, and the like, the better 

 it will be for future work. The gardener is often hindered by need- 

 less impedimenta in the flower garden, but in the reserve garden, 

 where only the cultivation of flowers has to be thought of, he should 

 be able to get to work at any time with the least possible difficulty, 



Terrace Wall with vfgofous tall Tea Roses. 



fragrant Hardy FlowersJ^J^- '\-J\Fragrant Hardy Flowers. 



Evergreen Border. 

 Wall of Sweet Verbena and Red Honeysuckle. 



Evergreens and Hardy Flowers. 

 Wall of Winter Sweet and Ceanothus , 



Flower garden of Surrey villa on peaty soil for choice evergreen shrubs with hardy flowers between. 



and in dry and good soils it would not be necessary to have much 

 more than a beaten walk for the foot. It would be possible to do 

 without edgings ; but where edgings are used they should be of a 

 kind that might be removed at any time, the best for this end 

 being of natural stone. The drainage should be good, and if possible 

 the place should be not too far to the manure heap, while the soil 

 should in all cases be good, as very often it has to give two crops a 

 year ; in the case of bulbs that perish early it is easy to get after crops 

 of annuals or ornamental grasses. 



