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beautifully clothed with flowering creepers, magnolias, and 

 geraniums ; and, altogether, the disposition of plants about and 

 against the garden front of the house equalled our expectations, 

 while the symmetrical disposition of assemblages of flowers on 

 the lawn surpassed them. The effect of considerable masses, 

 entirely composed of Geranium, of Celsia, of £?eliotropium, of 

 Fuchsz'tf, of Salvia coccinea, and of various other free-growing 

 green-house plants, is striking from its novelty and rarity, and 

 well worthy of imitation. We have seen no place where this 

 description of flower-gardening is carried to such an extent as 

 it is at Dropmore. 



The masses of flowers in front of the house form a regular 

 figure (fg* 84-.), and the plants are so disposed that, when in 

 flower, the corresponding forms of the figure contain corre- 

 sponding coloured flowers. The following is a list of the plants 

 which now occupy this figure, with the order in which they 

 are disposed, and a corresponding enumeration of the bulbs and 

 other plants which occupy the beds during winter and spring: 



Beds. In Summer. In Winter and Spring. 

 1 . Rosa indica (blush), bordered with ~) 



R. semperflorens flore pleno, > Anemone coronaria. 



and R. indica minor. ) 



2, 2. Pelargonium inquinans (scarlet ? Malcomia maritima (Virginian 



geranium). £ stock). 



3. Ferbena Lamberts. ) >nv 7 . ,-, , u i 



. c s • ,, /,v ,v /, ( TuhpaGesneruma common (hardy 



4. oenecio elegans nore pleno (dou- > * . . \ j 



e jacobaea). ) y f 



' „ r, n ■ L . .m,i ( Delphinium Aiaci.s (rocket lark- 



5, 5. Deista wrtieitolia. < r s • - 



' l spur), sown in autumn. 



6. 6. Cineraria amelloides. Crocus maesiacus. 



7. Fuchsia coccinea, bordered with ) c ,,, „ „„„';.„ ru\ ,~ i,„..~ 



„ , , iv- n- ( ocilla nonscnpta (blue nare- 



Primula vulgaris var. flore > bells') 



pleno-carnea. ) '' 



8. Heliotropium peruvianum. Muscaricomosumvar.monstrdsum. 



9. Ruellia formosa. 



10. Ageratum mexicana. 



Titlipa suaveolens. 



11, Dianthus chinensis (Indian pink) 1 m Gesneriarca var. flore pleno 

 and Reseda odorata (migno- V „' w . 



nette). )'. . 



12. Lobelia splendens. Tulipa Gesneriawa (single sorts). 

 15. Dianthus latifolius. 1 Z'xia crocata, and J'xia fenestralis, 



14. Lobelia unidentata. ) kept in frames in mid winter. 



15. 15, 15, 15. Choice herbaceous 

 plants, not exceeding 1 ft. 6 in. 

 in height. 



_,. ,^ . ,. M . C JZyacinthus orientalis (double blue 



16. 16. Gladiolus cardinahs. J variety), plunged in pots. 



17. Pelargonium lateYipes (pinkO # inthm ori entklis (double red 

 flowered variegated ivy-leaved \ % ariety) p l imge d in pots, 

 geranium). ) JJ ' ° 



18. Anagallis grandiflora. ? ifyacinthus orien talis (single blue 



19. Anagallis Monelli. J variety). 



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