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THE VILLA GARDENER. 



6 in. from the bed should be cut off or pegged down, and any naked space 

 that may occur on its surface should be covered by pegging down shoots from 

 the adjoining plants. 



188. Planting a front garden with Florists' flowers. — Fig. 52. is a front 

 garden of the same size as fig. 51. in p. 122., laid out with a view to the 

 culture of florists' flowers. The side 



walls should be planted with ivy ; 



and in front, next the street wall and 



railing, the ivy may be trained to 



wires, one wire being introduced 



between each rail. The plants trained 



against the house should be select 



climbing roses. The borders a and b 



should be devoted entirely to dahlias 



in summer, and bulbs in winter and 



spring; the bed c, to chrysanthemums; 



d, to pinks and carnations ; e and /, 



to tulips ; and g and h, to hyacinths ; 



the other bulbs, such as ranunculuses, 



anemones, &c., being grown in the 



dahlia borders before the latter are 



planted ; or, if the symmetrical effect 



is dispensed with, tulips, hyacinths, 



ranunculuses, and anemones, may be 



grown in the beds efgh. These 



beds, after the bulbs are removed, may be planted with showy annuals, or 



other plants brought forward in the reserve ground. As the foliage of the 



carnations and pinks, which occupy the centre bed, is evergreen, it will look 



well throughout the year. 



189. A mode of planting a front garden with, ornmental green-house plants, 



53 



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is to have a raised bed of brickwork, as shown in fig. 53. ; and of which fig. 

 54. is a section. In this section, p is the surface of the lawn ; q, a raised 

 bank of turf, to serve as a preparation for a base to the brickwork ; r, a circle 



