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Secondly, the colour of the flowers should be 

 well considered, and great care taken to avoid 

 placing two plants, whose flowers are of the 

 same hue, together. 



Thirdly, the time of their flowering should 

 be attended to, and, in a mingled flower gar- 

 den, contrive so to scatter them about, as to 

 prevent one part of your border appearing 

 without blossoms, while the rest is brilliant 

 from the number of plants in bloom in it. All 

 this cannot be managed in one year. Nothing 

 but a little experience, and some care, will 

 enable you to attain any thing like perfection 

 in the arrangement of plants, as to size, colour, 

 and time of flowering. The roots, or patches 

 of seed, must be placed at distances equal to 

 the space between the rows, namely, about 

 nine inches; the plants are not to be placed 

 immediately behind each other, but exactly 



