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If made sufficiently lofty, too, such verandas need not at all 

 interfere with the admission of light to the windows of the 

 house, and in summer, when the climbers would be in fuller 

 foliage and more diffuse in their growth, the little extra shade 

 they would occasion would be grateful rather than annoying. 



For the center of a rosary or secluded flower garden, or in 

 the middle or one corner of any formed flower garden that 

 does not immediately adjoin the house, or at the end of a 

 straight walk in some situations, a small ornamental temple 

 or summer house, for training climbers upon, and supplying 

 a summer arbor, will sometimes be a very pretty and pleas- 

 ant feature in a garden. It should however be chaste in 

 design and not at all elaborately decorated, being rather of a 

 good general shape than ornate in the details of the pattern. 



7. Flower Beds in Winter. — Lest the occurrence of a 

 number of empty beds on a lawn or in a flower garden, where 

 the system of massing summer plants is adopted, should 

 impart to a place a bare and desolate aspect during winter, 

 a store of the lower kinds of evergreens should be kept in 

 pots and plunged in some part of the kitchen garden or in 

 any reserved corner through the summer, to be transferred 

 to the flower beds directly their gayer furniture has been 

 cleared away in autumn. Such a plan is less troublesome 

 than it appears to be, for if the plants be kept constantly 

 in pots, summer and winter, and merely plunged in the 

 ground, a simple repotting once a year, with an occasional 

 watering in only the very driest summer weather, will be all 

 the attention they want for three or four years, when they 

 will require renewing by propagation. 



The fittest kinds for the office will be several dwarf heaths, 

 particularly the Erica carnea, Cotoneaster microphylla, Berbe- 

 ris aguifolimn, Menziesia poli folia, Andromeda floribunda, the 

 common dwarf juniper, small spruces, arbor vitaes and retinis- 



