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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 





[Kig. 55. English riower-Garden.] 



etc.* This mode can be adopted here where a small green- 

 house or frame is kept. In the absence of these, nearly the 

 same effect may be produced by choosing the most showy 

 herbaceous plants, perennial and biennial, alternating them 

 with hardy bulbs, and the finer species of annuals. 



In Jig. 55, we give an example of a small cottage or villa 



* In many English residences, the flower-garden is maintained in never- 

 fading- brilliancy by almost daily supplies from what is termed the reserve gar- 

 deju This is a small garden out of sight, in which a great number of duplicates 

 of the species in the flower-garden are grown in pots plunged in beds. As soon 

 as a vacuum is made in the flower-garden by the fading of any flowers, the 

 same are immediately removed and their places supplied by fresh plants just 

 ready to bloom, from the pots in the reserve garden. This, which is the ultima- 

 tum of refinement in flower-gardening, has never, to our knowledge, been at- 

 tempted in this country. 



