200 THE MANSE GARDEN. 



PART THIRD. 



FLOWERS, 



WHICH may not be overlooked, seeing that every 

 garden will have them ; but as rules of utility are 

 demonstrable, whilst those of taste are merely arbi- 

 trary, there is less to do with this than with either 

 of the preceding departments. And as all agree in 

 having flowers, but differ most widely as to the ex- 

 tent to which the fancy ought to be carried, the 

 following method is adopted in accommodation to 

 these circumstances : First, to make some general 

 observations, by attending to which, every one may 

 cultivate flowers to what extent he pleases ; and then 

 to give a small list of some of the principal ornaments 

 of the garden, set down in alphabetical order, with 

 particular directions for each. Such method, it is 

 apprehended, will suit the taste and convenience of 

 most persons for whom this little work is designed. 

 To none, perhaps, save the idle, the curious in 

 botany, who plant to gain a science, or the appren- 

 ticed, who must know their calling, can the enormous 

 lists of plants and flowers, grassy and fibrous, bulbous 

 and tuberous, annual, biennial, and perennial, hardy, 

 semihardy, and tender, indigenous and exotic, be 

 otherwise than frightful and sickening. The sight 



