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nnd tlie o-round thoroughly drained and prepared. The walls we would 

 plant with flowering shrubs, instead of fruit-trees; and the trellis we would 

 plant solely with roses. The centre of the garden we would lay out in beds, 

 in which the finer kinds of border flowers might be cultivated ; or, we would 

 form a border on both sides of the rose trellis, and lay down the centre of the 

 garden in grass. In selecting such flowers as might be grown in the beds 

 which we have supposed laid out within the space enclosed by the rose trellis, 

 various objects may be kept in view, according to the taste of the occupier. 

 He may have a favourite colour, or a favourite height; he may prefer 

 climbing plants, or trailers, or bushy plants, or bulbs ; or evergreen-leaved 

 herbaceous plants, such as the pink, &c., to look well in winter. He may 

 choose to make the greatest display in a particular month ; or to cultivate 

 plants which will continue in flower for two or thi-ee months at a time ; or to 

 grow only perennials or annuals, and so on. One of the most general objects 

 of gardeners, in cases of this kind, is to have an equal number of plants in 

 flower during every month of the floral year, which consists of nine months, 

 rejecting the three winter months. Of those in flower in each month, the 

 next object is to have an equal number of each of the most prevalent colours ; 

 and more particularly of red, scarlet, orange, purple, blue, violet, yellow, and 

 white. Where this is the object in a small garden, like that which we pro- 

 pose to plant, we would recommend a bed for each month ; or, if the plants 

 are to be arranged in borders, a row for the same period ; or, rather, an 

 imaginary row, so that there might be an equal quantity of plants in flower 

 at the same time in every part of the border. Both in borders and in beds, 

 it is desirable to place the lowest plants next the walk, and the tallest at the 

 greatest distance from it, so as to produce a sloping surface of vegetation, in 

 which mode it will be foimd that the most effectual display is made ; the 

 green foliage of the plants not yet come into flower, or that of the plants 

 which are gone out of flower, contrasting advantageously with those in full 

 bloom. The front garden may be surrounded by a border, and have a small 

 circular, square, or diamond-shaped bed in the centre ; or it may be laid out 

 in many different ways, some of which are shown in Jig. 41., care being taken 



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to employ artist-like shapes for the beds, and never to have less than 1 ft., or, 

 what is still better, 2 ft., of turf between one bed and another ; and between 



