and planting a Flower-Garden. 353 



" Such excellent ideas for distribution of plants, according to 

 the arrangement most agreeable to proprietors, are to be found 

 in different numbers of the Magazine, that it would be, to say the 

 least, unnecessary for Tyro to offer any suggestions on that 

 subject." 



The plan given by Tyro {^fig. 50.) is unexceptionable in its 

 kind ; it has less of the flower-garden character on the face of it, 

 than the plans of FJoretus, or of Lancastriensis ; and, indeed, 

 from the size of the masses it contains, it is better adapted for 

 flowering shrubs and low trees than for flowers ', though these 

 could be planted along the margins of the beds. 



To grow flowers in perfection, however, and at the same time 

 to show them^ to the greatest advantage, viz., in masses of the 

 same kind, they must be grown in beds by themselves. These 

 beds, in the case of a regular symmetrical flower-garden, will pro- 

 duce most effect when not intermixed with beds of shrubs; because 

 these beds of shrubs prevent the eye of the spectator from dis- 

 cerning the symmetry of the figure, or flower-garden, of which 

 the beds form the component parts. 



Where the object is not symmetry, but irregularity, variety, 

 and intricacy, the beds of flowers, and beds of flowering shrubs, 

 may be intermixed ; and this sort of disposition produces, in our 

 opinion, the greatest beauty of which an irregular flower-garden 

 is susceptible ; provided always, that the beds are properly 

 planted. 



Inj^. 51. we have shown how the general effect aimed at by 

 Tyro may be produced with what we should call a maximum 

 of beauty in the details or component parts. The larger beds, 

 amounting in number to about forty, are supposed to be planted 

 with flowering shrubs ; and for the most part, each bed to be 

 limited to either different varieties of the same species, or to 

 different species of the same genus. The smaller beds, amount- 

 ing to upwards of seventy, we would plant chiefly with flowers, 

 either of one species or variety, or with the different species, or 

 species and varieties, of one genus. In certain of the flower 

 beds, however, we would have changes made ; for example, bulbs 

 during winter and spring, should be succeeded by annuals during 

 summer and autumn. In the margins of the beds of shrubs, we 

 would have no flowers whatever, for even bulbs in such margins 

 have a tawdry appearance ; and they by no means harmonise 

 with the shrubs, either in a botanical or in a picturesque point 

 of view. Botanically, they do not harmonise, because most bulbs 

 are monocotyledonous ; and they do not form a picturesque 

 whole, or harmony with shrubs, because their beauties do not 

 admit of being depicted by the same style of art as those of 

 shrubs do. 



It will be observed that all these beds, whether large or small, 

 are circles ; and thattheiy are never nearer to the walk, or to one 



