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3. Plant all the beds with evergreen perennials ; each plant to be kept 

 perfectly distinct. Those for the centre bed may be .Jaxifraga crassifolia, 

 which is as valuable among evergreen herbaceous plants as the holly is among 

 evergreen shrubs. The other beds may be filled with different species of 

 evergreen saxifrages ; or, what would look better in winter, with carnations 

 and picotees in two opposite beds, and pinks and sweetwilliams in the four 

 others, disposed symmetrically ; that is, the two beds of sweetwilliams being 

 placed opposite each other, and the pinks in the other two beds ; or the centre 

 bed might be filled with wallflowers, and the others with different kinds of 

 stocks. 



4. The beds might be planted with low evergreen under-shrubs, which 

 would look well at every season of the year. For example, the centre bed 

 might be filled with rosemary ; and the surrounding beds with lavender, 

 sage, hyssop, winter savory, and thyme. These plants would serve, at the 

 same time, as sweet herbs. Or the centre bed might be filled with Cistus 

 creticus, or any low-growing cistus, and the surrounding beds with helian- 

 themums of different colours : or the centre bed might be filled with /beris 

 sempervirens, and the surrounding beds with alyssum, arabis, aubrietia, 

 vesicaria, cardamine, and barbarea. 



5. The centre bed may be occupied by a cone of climbing roses ; the cone 

 to which the plants are trained being formed by a circle ft. in diameter, 

 composed of eight rods of Kyanised wood, or cast iron, placed about a foot 

 apart at the bottom, and brought to a point at top, about 10 or 12 feet from 

 the ground, and there tied together by wire. One kind of rose may be 

 planted at the foot of each rod, and trained to it ; and some of the kinds 

 ought to be evergreens, so as to prevent the cone appearing bare in winter. 

 The roses may be selected from the lists which will be given hereafter ; but, 

 in the mean time, we may suggest that some of the most free-flowering sorts 

 are the Boursault rose, the rose de Lille, and the Queen of the Belgians ; the 

 last being a beautiful white. Rosa ruga is also a free-flowering and most 

 beautiful rose. There are several varieties of evergreen roses, one of the 

 finest of which is the triomphe de Bollwyller, which has large and fragrant 

 flowers. The surrounding beds may be planted with dwarf China roses ; or 

 with the rose des quatre saisons ; or entirely with Lee's crimson perpetual, 

 one of the most beautiful roses grown. 



6. The surrounding beds may be planted with Fuchsia globosa, which, 

 though it dies down to the ground every winter, comes up again the following 

 spring, and flowers most luxuriantly all summer; and the centre bed with 

 Fuchsia microphylla, which is a hardy evergreen, and does not die down 

 during winter ; or with F. discolor, which, though it is not an evergreen, is 

 quite hardy. 



169. Where there is a reserve garden it would be easy to keep the beds in 

 full beauty during the Avliole summer, by taking up every plant as it goes out 

 of flower, with a ball of earth attached (for which there is an appropriate tool, 

 called a transplanter), carrying it to the reserve ground, and bringing back a 

 plant in flower, with a ball of earth attached, to supply its place. If the 

 plants are grown in large pots, the labour of taking up and replanting will be 

 considerably lessened, and the success rendered certain, though there is some- 

 thing extremely interesting in removing plants in full flower by the trans- 

 planting machine, and watching the result. We have known persons, who 



