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with the purple blue Lo- 

 belia, Royal Purple, except 

 where a moon-shape ap- 

 peared, that was sown with 

 Cream Cups, Platystemon 

 californicus. The object, of 

 course, was to imitate the 

 sky and the crescent 

 moon by night, but the 

 owner told me that the 

 annual Cream Cups were 

 a trifle too tall, and not 

 floriferous enough to make 

 the required mass of colour, 

 and he believed that a cream 

 Viola would have had a 

 much better effect. I think 

 a pale blue ground, say of 

 azure Lobelia, and an orange 

 moon, would look striking 



also. The design of this freak bed, Fig. 2, shows that there is real 

 grace in the arrangement. 



A group of bed and borders is shown by Fig. 3. On a large scale 



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FIG. 3 



FIG. 4 



it could make a small rosery, but as a lawn ornament filled with 

 perennials, annuals, or bedding plants, it proves very pleasing if only 

 a little space can be given for it. The bed A might be of Gaillardias, 

 the border B of orange and lemon Iceland Poppies mixed ; other 

 suitable flowers would be rose Larkspurs and pink Eschscholtzia, 



