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largest plants in the centre, leaving room enough between to see 

 them on all sides ; finish the bed with one or more rows of Ecliev- 

 eria secimda glauca, and carpet the whole with Sedum Corsiciim, 

 or pruinosum. All kinds of geometrical designs may be worked 

 out with these plants, remembering that much of the final effect 

 depends on the most careful and exact planting. 



Plants with colored foliage are among the most eflTective for this 

 style of gardening : neither sun nor rain dim their beauty, and 

 they do not need the constant care and attention that flowering 

 plants must have at all seasons. I would suggest massing them 

 in beds of simple form, circles and ovals being the best, and edging 

 them with plants of a different color ; for example : Coleus Ver- 

 schaffelti, bordered with Golden Feather ; Achyranthes Lindeni, 

 bordered with the striped grass Phalaris arundinacea picta ; or Cen- 

 taurea gymnocarpa with a border of dwarf scarlet or pink flowering 

 pelargoniums. 



The golden Crystal Palace Gem, or Albion Cliffs (the best white- 

 edged bedding pelargonium), edged with a blue lobelia, are types 

 of the many arrangements that may be made from these materials. 



Two of the newer bronze zonals, Harold and The Moor, may 

 be planted in small beds by theraselves,their golden centres and 

 edges, and their brilliant chestnut zones, showing to the best 

 advantage next the grass, with no dividing line of contrasting 

 form or color. 



Lastly, although hard to grow satisfactorily in our climate, the 

 golden tricolors, Mrs. Pollock and Macbeth, edged with the dwarf 

 growing and very dark coleus Emperor Nappleon, which throws 

 the beautiful colors of the pelargoniums into high relief. 



For flowering plants none ai'e equal to the pelargoniums. These 

 should be planted in beds of a single kind, edged with one of a 

 diflTerent color, or with a variegated leaf, or with a plant of a 

 difi"er(jnt species. The best that I have tried are, — 



Gen. Grant, [ Tall growing pcarlets for 



Warrior, } large beds. 



Coleshill, ^ 



Sir Chas. Napier, I Medium in size. 



Sir John Moore, I 



Orbiculatum, | p^^. ^^^^^^,^^^ 



Omega, ( 



