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Remarks on laying out 



flower-gardens ; and that a regular plan should be adopted, 

 which would guarantee to the possessor a continual and com- 

 plete succession of flowers, both in the mingled beds and in 

 the masses, all through the season. But this, of course, cannot 

 be effected, in the manner here represented, by a gardener 

 who has forcing, kitchen-gardening, and shrubberies to look 

 after, but must form a province by itself; and the man who 

 will undertake to do justice to a flower-garden, and make it 

 what it ought to be, will find his head and hands fully em- 

 ployed all the year round. Something might be here said 

 about the division of labour in our profession; but, as old 

 Richard says, "Folks don't preach sermons at a fair." 



In the kind of garden here described, a person of good 

 taste (except the merely scientific man) would not stop to 

 enquire whether the number of species consisted of fifty or 

 five hundred, provided he met with well-balanced and har- 



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