34 Flower-Garderifor a full Display 



planted with a mixed collection of bulbs. There may be a 

 standard purple Noisette rose in the centre ; and the marginal 

 line should be of mixed hyacinths. 



The other beds are proposed to be planted with herbaceous 

 plants, bulbs, and showy green-house plants, in the following 

 manner : — 



b, Red-flowering herbaceous plants and red-flowering 

 bulbs ; the border of Aimable Rosette hyacinths. 



c, White-flowering herbaceous plants and white-flowering 

 bulbs ; the border of white crocuses. 



d, Blue-flowering herbaceous plants and blue-flowering 

 bulbs, bordered by blue or purple crocuses. 



e, Yellow-flowering herbaceous plants and yellow-flowering 

 bulbs, bordered with yellow crocuses. 



y,' Variegated horse-shoe geraniums, alternating with mixed 

 hyacinths, and bordered with mixed crocuses. 



g, Variegated ivy-leaved geraniums, alternating with mixed 

 tulips, and bordered with mixed crocuses. 



/?, Fuchs/a coccinea, or any favourite tender annual or 

 green-house plant, alternating with mixed iVarcissi, and bor- 

 dered with mixed dog-tooth violets. 



/, Heliotropes, or other favourite tender annual or green- 

 house plants, alternating with mixed /Vis Xiphium, and 

 bordered with mixed *Scilla verna and bifolia; the latter in its 

 blue, white, and red varieties. 



The beds are raised a little in the centre, as is shown by 

 the section k I. 



The details of one bed (./%. 8.) are given, as a specimen 



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of the manner in which the beds are proposed to be planted 

 with herbaceous plants, alternating with bulbs, and bordered 

 with bulbs. 



Herbaceous plants with red flowers ; equal numbers flower- 

 ing in April, May, June, July, August, and September, till 

 destroyed by frost. 



Outside Row; height of the plants from 6 in. to 18 in. 



1. Phlox siibulata; April. 5. Pentstemon angustifolius j Au- 



2. Z/ychnis Viscaria and flore gust. 



pleno ; May. 6. A^ster «alicif61ius ; September 



3. -Antirrhinum medium ; June. and October. 



4. Phlox glaberrima ; July. 7. Primula AUidni?; April. 



