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Beds. 



22 and 23. Crocus vernus and biflorus. 



24. Hyacinths, double red. 



25 and 26. Tulips, double yellow. 



27. Hyacinths, double white. 



28. Muscari botryoides, (Grape Hyacinth.) 



29. Oxalis caprina, (kept in frames in mid-winter.) 



30. Scilla verna, (Spring Harebell.) 



31. Muscari racemosum, the border of Viola tricolor in sorts. 



32. Hyacinths, double white. 



33. Double rose Larkspur. 



" As a general principle for regulating the plants in this 

 figure, the winter and spring flowers ought, as much as pos- 

 sible, to be of sorts which admit of being in the ground all 

 the year : and the summer crop should be planted at inter- 

 vals between the winter plants. Or the summer crop, hav- 

 ing been brought forward in pots under glass, or by nightly 

 protection, may be planted out about the middle of June, 

 after the winter plants in pots are removed. A number of 

 hardy bulbs ought to be potted and plunged in the beds in 

 the months of October and November ; and when out of 

 bloom, in May or June, removed to the reserve 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 masses, is productive of by far the most 

 splendid eflect. In England, where flower-gardens are car- 

 ried to their greatest perfection, the preference 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, Lobelias, Scarlet Geraniums, etc., 



*Ency. of Gardening, 1000. 



