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arrangement. No plants are admitted that are shy bloom- 

 ers, or which have ugly habits of growth, meagre or starved 

 ioiiage ; the aim being brilliant effect, rather than the 

 display of a great variety of curious or rare plants. To 

 bring this about more perfectly, and to have an elegant 

 show during the whole season of growth, hyacinths and 

 other fine bulbous roots occupy a certain portion of the 

 ueds, the intervals being filled with handsome herbaceous 

 plants, permanently planted, or with flowering annuals and 

 green-house plants renewed every season. 



To illustrate the mode of arranging the beds and disposing 

 the plants in an English garden, we copy the plan and 

 description of the elegant flower-garden, on the lawn at 

 Dropmore, the beds being cut out of the smooth turf. 



" As a general principle for regulating the plants in this 

 figure, the winter and spring flowers ought, as much as 

 possible, to be of sorts which admit of being in the ground 

 all the year : and the summer crop should be planted at 

 intervals between the winter plants. Or the summer crop, 

 having been brought forward in pots under glass, or by 

 nightly protection, may be planted out about the middle of 

 June, after the winter plants in pots are removed. A 

 number of hardy bulbs ought to be potted and plunged in 

 the beds in the months of October and November ; and 

 when out of bloom, in May or June, removed to the reserve 



