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planting as separate borders in any garden, on a small 

 or large scale, and, of course, the whole design in each 

 case may be used on a lawn or cut out, edged with tiles 

 and gravelled between. 



Effect iue Ways of Planting the Beds. The long central bed in Fig. i 

 may be filled as follows : Nos. i i i, Hyacinth La Grandesse ; Nos. 222, 

 Hyacinth Roi des Beiges (dark red) ; No. 3, entirely filled with Aubrietia 

 deltoides (lavender blue). The whole bed would thus show the colours red, 

 white, and blue. No other bordering would be needed, as the Aubrietia 



FIG. 2. Simple Designs for Spring Beds and Borders. 



would form it in the way of a carpet bordering. Where the three sets of 

 beds are planted close together, as drawn, the two outer ones may be filled 

 as follows : Nos. 4 4, Tulip Keizerskroon, scarlet, with yellow border ; 

 double white Arabis as a groundwork. Nos. 5 5, Tulip Queen of the 

 Netherlands, blush colour; Aubrietia Leichtlinii. Nos. 6 6, Tulip 

 Duchess of Parma, orange red, yellow border; groundwork of white 

 Arabis. All other divisions, Nos. 7777, filled with Hyacinths King of 

 the Blues and L' Innocence, blue and white respectively, and single- 

 flowered Arabis alpina as an edging only, but not as a groundwork for all 

 the Hyacinths. No. i in Fig. 2 may be filled with Hyacinth gigantea, 

 or Norma or Moreno, all pink-flowered, and La Grandesse, white, with a 

 groundwork of Forget-me-not, or an edging, No. 2, of the latter plant. 

 Nos. 3 3 and Nos. 4 4, Tulip Dusart, dark red, and Arabis alpina, 



