Notes and Gleanings. 



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NOTES AND GLEANINGS FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES. 



Flower Groups in Gardens. — We select the following examples from an 

 excellent article in the Country Gentleman's Magazine, and may perhaps here- 

 after give other specimens. 



Beauty of outline is not all that is needed to please the eye, but it is a major 

 part of it. Even the diamond gains much from the setting ; and so do flowers. 

 True, the diamond is bright, the flower beautiful, anywhere. But the former is 

 never so bright as when it flashes forth from the brow of beauty, the latter never 

 so charming as when it looks up at us from a chaste, elegant bed, cushioned 

 round with green grass, and set in any framework of spotlessly bright, sparkling 

 gravel. 



The following sketches have the merit of being easily transferred from paper 

 to ground, which is of importance to all gardeners. ' With a large pair of com- 

 passes, made with two sharp-pointed sticks, — say two feet long, for legs, — and a 

 bit of stout string to graduate the distance of the two legs at pleasure, all these 

 may be as easily drawn upon the ground as upon paper. The scale is enlarged ; 

 that is all. The most convenient mode of proceeding is to draw a straight line 

 with perpendiculars, proceeding across to the points of the side figures, and then 

 work from these. 



Fig. I. 



Fig. I needs little comment. Its elegance, compactness, and simple beauty 

 commend themselves. Who would not like to have it in front of their drawing- 

 room window ? And in what position could it fail to please ? The beds would 

 look well furnished and attractive in pairs with the following selection of plants : — 



1, I. White Verbena. 



2, 2. Verbena Scarlet King. 



3, 3. Mangles's Variegated Pelargonium. 



4, 4. Pelargonium Lady Cullum. 

 S> 5) 5) 5- Pyrethrum Golden Feather. 



6, 6, 6, 6. Clipper, Lord Derby, Amy Hogg, and Persian Pelargoniums, each 

 bed of one variety. 



