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These arrangements are equally effective from the house and the street. 



If only a general mass of color is wanted, after the bulbs have bloomed, 

 the beds may be sown with portulaca early in the spring. The plants 

 will begin to bloom in early summer, will soon cover the bed, and, until 

 November, give a brilliant carpet of rose, red, yellow, orange, scarlet, and 

 white, with an infinity of shades. 



The roots do not strike deep enough to injure the bulbs; and, when the 

 plants are killed by frost, the bed will be ready for a top-dressing of 

 manure, to insure fine bloom upon the bulbs the next spring. 



No further sowing of portulaca will be required, as it will come up 

 freely every year. 



For climbers for the trellis against the window, we have few plants well 

 adapted. 



The object must be to find a plant with fine foliage, which is also 

 ornamental in flower and fruit. The common Virginia creeper, or wood- 

 bine {Atupclopsis Virgi?iica), answers well our purpose, and is very showy 

 when autumn changes the foliage. 



The Dutchman's pipe {Aristolochia sipho) has broad, light-green leaves, 

 and curious flowers, and, when once established, is a rampant grower. 



The Chinese wistaria ( JK j///t7zj-/i-) is always pretty; and the drooping 

 spikes of papilionaceous flowers are very ornamental. 



The trumpet-flower {Bignonia raJkans and grandiflora) is showy, and 

 climbs to a great height. 



Canadian moonseed {Menispermum Canadense) is very pretty, and pro- 

 fuse in foliage. Where both male and female plants are obtained, the 

 berry is ornamental. 



For low climbers, we cannot too highly recommend various species of 

 clematis, of which C. fiainmiila, tnontana, Virgmica, and azu?-ca grandiJJoi-a, 

 are the best. Should the new English varieties so recently obtained prove 

 hardy in our latitude, they will give a variety of color and habit very rarely 

 found in one family, 



Roses and honeysuckles are too ragged, and last too short a time in 

 perfection, to find room where there is so little space as in a city garden. 

 The Japanese evergreen twining honeysuckle is, perhaps, an exception to 

 this remark. 



