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the dining-room c; the only care necessary being to mingle a few variegated 

 hollies or flowering shrubs with the other trees, to prevent the plantation from 

 looking too dark. If desired, the plantation may be made to slope upwards 

 from the house to the walk, next which the highest bushes may be placed, 

 and which would be thus hidden from the house. Another mode of managing 

 this screen would be to carry the walk next the house instead of being in its 

 present position, and to have a plantation of American shrubs carried from 

 it to the boundary wall ; the kalmias, azaleas, and other low-growing plants 

 being in front, and the rhododendrons behind. There may also be a planta- 

 tion of rhododendrons and other American plants at r, and laurestinus and 

 rhododendrons may form the shrubbery between the house and the road. 



105. The floiver garden, t, maybe planted with Californian annuals, which 

 will be in flower from March till the end of May, when they may be removed 

 and their place supplied by green- house plants, which will continue in flower 

 till October or November. The Californian annuals should be sown the latter 

 end of October or the beginning of November, as soon as the green-house 

 plants are removed and the ground has been cleared and raked. The fol- 

 lowing is a list of the annuals which may be sown to stand the winter, in order 

 that they may flower in early spring : 



1. Nemophila insignis ; blue. 5. Esclischoltzia Califomica ; yellow. 



2. Eschscholtzia crocea ; orange. 6. Lupinus nanus ; blue. 



3. Leptosiphon densiflorus ; purple. 7. Nemophila atomaria ; white. 



4. Clarkia pulchella alba ; white. 8. Erysimum Ferowskianum ; orange. 



Towards the end of May these should be cleared away entirely, and the 

 ground forked over and raked, after which the beds may be filled with green- 

 house plants as follows : 



1. Calceolarias ; yellow. 5. Verbenas ; white. 



2. Verbenas; scarlet. 6. Phlox Drummondii ; crimson. 



3. Lobelias ; blue. 7. AnagalUs Mouulli ; blue. 



4. Calceolarias; yellow. 8. Pelargbnium Tom Thimib ; scarlet. 



The best yellow calceolarias are C. Keyii, and C. viscosissima, which may 

 be obtained at 8d. or 9d. each, or at 6s. 9d. or 7s. a dozen. If preferred, 

 Cuphea platycentra, which may be had for 4s. a dozen, may be substituted 

 for calceolarias in the bed marked 4 ; and Heliotropium Voltaireanum for the 

 anagallis, as the heliotrope is a most splendid plant, and its flowers, which are 

 produced in large trusses, are of a brilliant dark purple. For border flowers 

 this heliotrope, Calceolaria amplexicaulis, Zauschneria Californica, or Z. 

 coccinea, and Dielytra spectabilis may be planted, but the last two are more 

 expensive than the others. 



106. Planting the walls. — The side walls near the house should be com- 

 pletely covered, in order to disguise the boundary ; and for this purpose we 

 would recommend ornamental climbers and creepers, or planting the whole 

 with ivy. If climbers are chosen, the sorts which may be procured at Is. or 

 1*. 6d. a plant are : 



Ampelopsis quinquefolia and cordata, the Ticonna (Bignonia) radicans, the common 



five-leaved and heart-leaved Virginian trumpet flower. 



creeper. Clematis montana, florida, azurea, Viorna, 



^tragene austrlaca, the Austrian virgin'.s and Viticiilla, difleruat kinds of virgin's 



bower. bower. 



