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fferent heights: any competent grower knows how to stop his 

 ants in some portions of a bed, and how to stimulate and en- 

 urage rampant growth of others, so as to produce a variation in 

 ight. In this bed A should be taller than B, and B than c. A 

 easing selection of colours would be : A, carmine ; B, rose ; c, pale 

 nk ; D, mauve ; and E, the pink and white Cupid Pea. A bed 

 [ in blue and white could be made thus : A, indigo ; B, white ; 

 deep blue ; D, azure ; E, Cupid white. One in purple mauve and 

 imrose would be novel thus : A, deepest purple ; B, primrose ; c, 

 auve; D, lilac ; E, primrose Cupid. It is possible, too, to use a 

 eat deal of white and only one colour ; bright pink and white, for 

 ample, or scarlet and white, which is yet more effective. A, white ; 



scarlet ; c, white ; D, scarlet ; E, white. This bed would prove 

 mark ably showy, yet artistic, and would attract notice from a 

 r distance. Growers who have a lot of different colours but not a 

 eat quantity of plants of either, might fill such a bed thus : A, 

 irple maroon ; B, blue ; c, carmine ; D, rose ; E, white. 



Lines of Sweet Feas are needed to produce the correct 

 ttterns shown in the bed Fig. 2 : this looks very original, 

 though its foundation is merely one of those oblong beds that are to 



FIG. 2. DESIGN FOB BED OF SWEET PEAS 



