ARRANGEMENT OF PLANTS. 35 



LETTER II. 



February. 



IN planting shrubs and herbaceous roots, 

 and in sowing patches of seeds, I must request 

 you to pay great attention, first, as to the height 

 they will attain when in flower ; arranging them 

 so that the dwarf sorts may be in front, and the 

 taller at the back. 



My beds usually consist of three or four rows 

 of plants, each row nine inches apart: in the 

 front are planted pinks, violets, hepaticas, prim- 

 roses, varieties of cowslip and oxlip, snowdrops, 

 and crocuses ; in the next are stocks, sweet- 

 williams, some sorts of campanulas, and peonies, 

 &,c. ; in the back rows, scarlet lychnis, poppies, 

 monks-hood, splendid sage, and other tall grow- 

 ing plants. 



