260 Flower-gardens at Dropmore. 



Beds. In Summer. In Winter and Spring. 



20. Pelargonium coruscans. J flyacinthu* orientalis (single white 



21. Pelargonium, sp. ? (Prince ot > variety). 



Orange geranium). ) 



22. CEnothera caespitosa. _ ) Crocus v ^ rnus and b jfl orus . 



23. Oenothera missounensis. ) 



24. Pelargonium zonale ( scarlet- ? Hyacinthm orientalis (double red 

 flowered variegated-leaved var.) £ variety). 



25. Jfalope trifida. ) Tiilipa Gesneridna (double yellow 



26. Lobelia fulgens. ) variety). 



_ N v f/Tyacinthus orientalis (double 



27. Petunia odorata. | white variety)> 



* „ , , . ( Muscari iotryoides (grape hya- 



28. Commelina ccelestis. < cmt h^ 



I O'xalis caprina, kept in frames in 



29. Cistus guttatus. •£ m jd w inter. 



30. Campanula pentagona. Scilla veYna. 



31. tfosa damascena (four^ seasons 1 Muscari racemosa, the border of 



rose) and Reseda odorata (mig- £ yMa trfcolor in var i et ies. 



nonette.) ) 



„ , ,. . , ,,. ( ITyacfothm orientalis (double 



32. Bouvardea triphylla. | J whhe variety ). 



55. Tropae'olum majus flore pleno ) Delphinium Ajam (double rose 

 (double nasturtium). J larkspur). 



As a general principle for regulating the plants in this 

 figure, Mr. Baillie observes that the winter and spring flowers 

 ought, as much as possible, to be of sorts which admit of 

 being left in the ground all the year ; and the summer crop 

 should be planted in the intervals between the winter plants. 

 Or the summer crop having been brought forward in pots 

 under glass, or by nightly protection, may be planted out about 

 the middle of June, after the winter plants in pots are removed. 

 A number of hardy bulbs ought to be potted and plunged in 

 the beds in the months of October and November, and when 

 out of bloom, in May or June, removed to the reserve-garden, 

 and plunged there, in order to perfect their foliage, and ma- 

 ture their bulbs for the succeeding season. 



In some parts of the grounds the masses are thrown about 

 the surface, without regard to regularity or combination of 

 figures, and, occasionally, as it struck us at the moment, in a 

 manner which was rather injurious to what a painter would 

 call breadth of effect. Sometimes a large mass of one colour 

 has an eye in the centre of a different colour, and marginal 

 borders of contrasted colours. In the open glades of lawn in 

 the woody scenery, groups of flowers rise up among moss, others 

 among roots, rocks, gravel, petrifactions, bark, or other mate- 

 rials. Fine single specimens of green-house plants appear 

 here and there, plunged in pots. On observing the surface 

 round the large geraniums in general closely covered with 



