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garden and plunged there, in order to perfect their foliage 

 and mature their bulbs for the succeeding season."* 



There cannot be a question that this method of planting 

 the flower-garden in groups and masses, is productive of 

 by far the most splendid effect. In England, where flower- 

 gardens are carried to their greatest perfection, the pre- 

 ference in planting is given to exotics which blossom 

 constantly throughout the season, and which are kept in 

 the green-house during winter, and turned out in the 

 beds in the early part of the season, where they flower in 

 the greatest profusion until frost ; as Fuchsias, Salvias, 



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[Fig. 72. English Flower-Garden.J 

 * Ency. of Gardening, 1000. 



