THE SCOTS GARDENER 



Secondly, in my sort of flower-gardens, which has 

 borduresand pathes running all one way, viz., from 

 the house, plant five rows, and intermix them, not 

 as in the last way, but set five rowes of each kind 

 cross thebordure,so as twenty five of each sort may 

 standina geometrical squair ; for instance, a squair 

 of tulips, a squair of boars-ears, a squair of crocuses, 

 a squair of July-flowers, a squair of anemonies,and 

 a squair of cowslips ; and so a squair of tulips, an- 

 other of boars-ears, &c., again intermixing through 

 the whole of that bordure the colours of each sort : 

 then may you make the next bordure so intermixt, 

 but differing ; minding, that as you intermix the 

 bulbous and fibrous plants in each bordure, so must 

 they be also in the crossing, that the squair of fibrous 

 in this way, oppose the squair of bulbous in the 

 next ; and likewayes whatever bordure such sorts 

 areinon the one side of the walke,set the very same 

 in the bordure equi-distant from the walke on the 

 other side, that the whole may be regular and uni- 

 formly intermixt all the year, looking from all sides, 

 ends or angles. 



Thirdly, in nurseries of beds and ridges, plant 

 every kind in thickets by themselves, and annuals 

 and perennials by themselves, (except only that 



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