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this simple rule, will not only give the beds, when the plants 

 are full grown, a confused look, but the beauty of the hum- 

 bler and more delicate plants will be lost amid the tall thick 

 branches of sturdier plants, or removed so far from the spec- 

 tator in the walks, as to be overlooked. 



Considerable experience is necessary to arrange even a 

 moderate number of plants in accordance with these rules. 

 To perform it successfully, some knowledge of the habits of 

 the plants is an important requisite ; their height, time of 

 flowering, and the colours of their blossoms. When a g-ar- 

 dener, or an amateur, is perfectly informed on these points, 

 he can take a given number of plants of diiferent species, 

 make a plan of the bed, or all the beds of a flower-garden 

 upon paper, and designate the particular situation of each 

 species. 



To facilitate the arrangement of plants in this manner, we 

 here subjoin a short list of the more showy perennial and 

 annual hardy border flowers, such as are easily procured 

 here, for the use of those who are novices in the art. and 

 who wish to cultivate a taste for the subject. 



No. 1, designates the first class which grow from six to 

 twelve inches in height. 



No. 2, Those which grow from one to two feet. 



No. 3j Those which are over two feet in height. 



Flowering m April. 



1. Anemone ihalictroides, pi. Double wood Anemone ; white. 



1. Anemone Pulsatilla. Pasque flower ; blue. 



1. Anemone hepatica, pi. Double Hepaticas ; blue. 



1. Viola odorata, pi. Double white and blue European violets. 



1. Omphalodes verna. Blue Venus Navelwort. 



1. Folemonium reptans. Greek Valerian ; blue. 



1. Phlox stolonifera. Creeping Phlox ; red. 



2. Phlox divaricata. Early purple Phlox. 



