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admit, it should be located before the windows exposed to a 

 southern or south-eastern aspect. The principle on which it is 

 laid out ought to be that of exhibiting a variety of color and 

 form, so blended as to produce one beautiful whole. In a 

 small flower-garden, viewed from the windows of a house, this 

 effect is best produced by beds, or borders, formed side b}^ 

 side, and parallel to the windows whence they are seen, as in 

 that position the colors show to the best advantage. In a 

 retired part of the garden, a rustic seat may be formed, over 

 and around which grape-vines, or honeysuckles, and other 

 sweet and ornamental creepers and climbers, may be trained on 

 trellises, which will afford a pleasant rural retreat. 



CONSTRUCTING A ROCKERY. 



In extensive pleasure-grounds a rockery, formed of rough 

 stones, and rich light soil, may be erected in imitation of a 

 mountain, on which may be cultivated various plants natives 

 of mountainous districts, and such indigenous plants as are 

 calculated for the situation ; also herbaceous plants, procum- 

 bent and trailing, such as Mesembryanthemums, Climbing Cor- 

 dydalis, the various species of Silene or Catch-fly, Gypsophila, 

 Lotus, Ricota or Syrian Honesty, Godetia, etc. These, being 

 interspersed with dwarf plants of diff'erent species, as Mountain 

 Lychnis, Violets, Daisies, etc., and so arranged as to cover a 

 great proportion of the rocky surface, must necessarily produce 

 a very pleasing efi"ect. 



Although the greatest display is produced by a general 

 flower-garden — that is, by cultivating such a variety in one bed 

 or border as will insure an almost constant blooming — yet 

 bulbous-rooted plants, though essential to the perfection of 

 the flower-garden, lose something of their peculiar beauty 

 when not cultivated by themselves. The extensive variety of 

 bulbous roots furnishes means for the formation of a garden, 

 the beauty of which, arising from an intermixture of every 

 variety of form and color, would well repay the trouble of 



