Laying Out a Garden. 



In planting, care should be taken to have sunny 

 spots and shady spots. This can be obtained by 

 planting trees in clumps of threes and fives at angles 

 to each other. Heavy permanent shade should be 

 avoided, as it is conducive to draw weakly plants. 



When planting, choose only straight healthy trees, 

 and robust bushy shrubs, discarding all sickly speci- 

 mens of which it is folly to expect will ever grow into 

 nice plants. 



Deciduous and evergreen trees require to be tastefully 

 intermixed, so that the advantage of spring foliage and 

 flowers may be obtained, and the continual sameness 

 of a heavy green mass avoided. And again, in the 

 formation and arrangement of shrubberies, care should 

 be taken that the various forms and shades of foliage, 

 both red and green, are tastefully intermixed, and that 

 a blaze of red Acalyphas, or a continuous line of green 

 shrubs, should not be planted together, but that just 

 sufficient variety of plants are mixed to give a warmth 

 of colour, and break the monotony of a continual line 

 of green. 



Large specimen palms in isolated positions, will in 

 some cases be improved by having their bare stems 

 covered with ivy, or other suitable climbing plants ; 

 and under the shade of large trees, where it is difficult 

 to get grass to grow, a slight mound of rock-work 

 and rich soil, filled with ferns and shade-loving plants, 

 will impart a cheerful effect. 



Paths. It is generally the custom in Egyptian 

 gardens, to pay little or no attention to the paths. 

 One often finds them hollowed out, rather than raised, 

 and after a heavy rainfall, they present miniature 

 rivers, and are practically impassable. Even in the 

 well-kept gardens of Cairo, this state of affairs can 

 scarcely be said to be remedied, as the paths there 

 are usually covered with small pebble quartz, which 

 tends to give a somewhat finished appearance, but 

 are exceedingly unpleasant to walk upon. 



For private gardens, the main path should be from 



