THE SUMMER FLOWER-GARDEN. 



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Heddiwiggi. These may be varied to suit the fancy of the possessor with the newest annuals de- 

 scribed in the Catalogue, selecting them according to colors, and height of growth. All the beds 

 should be edged with box or thrift. The extent of ground is thirty-two feet square. 



For more artistic and complete grounds, we add two plans from two of the most elegant flower- 

 gardens of England. 



The first plan (No. 3) is extensive and elrborate in design, and evinces artistic skill and 

 arrangement of a high order. The length of the garden is a hundred and sixty feet, and the 

 width seventy-two feet. The walks are of gravel, and the beds are all edged with box. It may be 



filled with bedding-plants or with annuals ; 

 and, supposing the amateur to desire a mix- 

 ture of the two, the following is an appro- 

 priate list. Scarlet Geraniums and Verbenas 

 being the most effective of bedding-plants : 



1. Verbena (blue). 



2. Verbena (white). 



3. Pansies, of the fine shovyy sorts. 



4. Portulaca (white). 



5. Tom Thumb Geranium. 



6. Verbena (striped). 



7. Portulaca (golden). 



8. Campanula Carpatica, with Tree Rose 

 in the centre. 



g. The same. 



10. Tom Thumb Geranium. 



11. Portulaca (white). 



12. Verbena (striped). 



13. Portulaca (golden). 



14. Pansies of the fine showy sorts. 



15. Verbena (white). 



16. Verbena (blue). 



17. Ageratum. 



18. Heliotrope, 

 ig. Tom Thumb Geranium. 



20. Verbena, Sunset (rose). 



21. Portulaca (golden). 



22. Portulaca (scarlet). 



23. Same as No. 8. 

 f^ 24. Geranium, Lucia Rosea (pink). 

 Q 25. Tom Thumb Geranium. 

 ;5 26. Tom Thumb Geranium. 



27. Geranium, Lucia Rosea (pink). 



28. Portulaca (scarlet). 

 2g. Tom Thumb Geranium. 



30. Heliotrope. 



31. Verbena, Sunset. 



32. Portulaca (golden). 



33. Ageratum. 



34. Same as No. 8. 



35. Vase, or Statue. I{a vase, to be filled 

 with Verbenas, Petunias, &c. If a 

 statue, to be surrounded with a cir- 

 cle of Oxalis Floribunda. 



But, when it is intended to be filled with 

 annuals, this may easily be done by substi- 

 tuting Candytuft, Alyssnm, Eschscholtzia, 

 Lobelia, Agrostemma, Petunias, Dwai'f Con- 

 volvulus, Clarkias, &c. 



The last plan which we give (No. 4) is a 

 copy of the flower-garden of the Duchess 

 of Bedford, at Camden Hill, near London. 

 In harmony of arrangement, it stands very 

 high ; and, offering as it does a great variety 

 in the disposition of the beds, it contains, in 

 an eminent degree, the two great elements 

 of a select garden, — harmony and variety. 

 "Two things," says a well-known writer, 

 "are necessary to the beauty of a flower- 

 garden, — harmony and variety. Harmony 

 consists in agreeableness of form, likeness 

 of size, and relation of color : variety is the 

 indefinite diversity of vegetative existence. 

 If there is variety merely, the garden is strange, extraordinary, fantastic; it is not fine. If 

 harmony alone is displayed, then it is monotonous, dull, and wearisome. But in the happy corn- 

 bination of the two resides its power to awaken agreeable sensations, ana impart delight. This 

 union is well exemplified in this plan." 



No scale is given ; but we suppose the ground to contain a circle of one hundred feet, — 

 about fifty feet to the inch. The plants employed, annuals and bedding-plants, would be 

 as follows, according to the numbers : — 





