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City Gardens. 



and a grass border (two feet wide) to run round the outside. This size 

 can easily be modified as the bed to be planted may be larger or smaller. 



The plants represented by letters are bulbs; the figures denoting peren- 

 nial herbaceous plants. Both classes may be allowed to remain many 

 years without being disturbed. 



All the plants flower during April and May. 



This bed of bulbs will make a very gay appearance from April to the 

 middle of May. 



As the flowers of the bulbs fade, there will be a time when the bed will 

 be rather bare unless a few herbaceous plants are interspersed. 



These should be, generally, low growers, and such as will be out of 

 bloom before the bedding-plants and annuals come into flower, — which 

 will be by the middle of June. 



This same garden may, about the middle of May, be planted with 

 annuals, &c., as directed in our last. 



The following spring-blooming herbaceous plants are ver}' ornamental. 

 They should, generally, be planted about a foot every way from each 

 other : — 



1. Hepatica triloba flore pleno rubra et coerulea 4. Trollius Europ:eus (globe-flower). 



(double blue and red hepatica). 5. Phlox divaricata. 



2. Sanguinaria Canadensis (bloodroot). 6. Caltha palustris flore pleno (double marsh-mari- 



3. Trillium grandiflorum. gold). 



The following arrangement is pretty for a narrow border under a south 

 window ; and, where the underpinning of the house is of stone, the snow- 

 di"ops will often be in bloom in February. 



The border is represented three feet wide by eighteen feet long, — each 

 square representing one foot by two feet : — 



HOUSE. 



A. 

 B. 

 C. 

 D. 

 E. 

 F. 

 G. 

 H. 



Snowdrops. I. 



Crocus, Scotch (striped). J. 



Crocus, Cloth-of-Gold. K. 



Crocus, Queen Victoria (white). L. 



Crocus, David Rizzio (purple). M. 



Hyacinth, Mad. Van de Hoop (whiteX N. 



Hyacinth, Waterloo (red). O. 

 Hyacinth, Argus (blue). 



Tulip, Due Van Thol. 



Tulip, Canary Bird. 



Tulip, Jagt Van Delft (white). 



Iris Persica. 



Jonquil, Single. 



Erythronium Dens Canis (dog-tooth violet). 



Scilla Siberica (blue). 



