74 Design for a Flower- Garden on Gravel, 



To return to your arrangement again, you have in the beds 

 from 34? to 38 inclusive five different shades of blue, without 

 either yellow or orange to support them ; and at the back of 

 these, from 18 to 24, you have seven kinds of verbenas in suc- 

 cession, which has too much the character of a generic arrange- 

 ment. 



I could name other discrepancies, but perhaps placing the 

 coarse Stenactis speciosa in 60, to correspond with ffinothera 

 Drummond/z in 13, is the greatest error. Stenactis, in my 

 opinion, is altogether unworthy of a bed ; but, if it must have a 

 bed, and have a *' corresponding one," I should say " none but 

 itself can be its parallel." 



In conclusion, I may remark that the most certain mode of 

 securing harmony in the grouping of a garden is, to make the 

 arrangement during the time the plants are in flower, by placing 

 the flowers on a sheet of green or yellow paper, as the garden 

 may be on grass or gravel. In this way the most harmonious 

 arrangement may be made ; but, in the absence of flowers, pieces 

 of card, of the form of the beds, and coloured to represent the 

 flowers, will be found the best substitute. 



Subjoined is a list of plants with which I propose to stock 

 the garden. Some of them, as the ageratums, will probably re- 

 quire pegging down, to keep them to the proper height ; but of 

 that the superintendant of the garden will be the best judge. 



1. Ferbena Hendersons, purple. 17. Pelargonium compactum, rose 



2. LobehV? lutea, yellow. scarlet. 



3. (Salvia patens, with S. chamaedrj - 18. Pelargonium, basilisk, brilliant 



oides, dark blue, round the sides ; scarlet, 



and Sanvitalia procumbens, yel- 19. Calceolaria rugosa, yellow, 



low, in the bottom, to cover the 20. Lobeh'« ramosa, dark blue, 



ground. 21. Nierembergfa filicaulis, French 



4. Bouvardia triphylla, red scarlet. white. 



5. Tournefortia Aeliotropioides, pale 22. FerbenaTweedie««asuperba,dark 



blue. crimson. 



6. Terbena, the queen, white. 23. Ferbena Neilh'z, violet. 



7. Campanula carpatica, dark blue. 24. Ferbena BuistM, pale rose. 



8. Ferbena amoe^na, pale lilac. 25. Pelargonium Mangleszi, varie- 



9. Same as No. 3. gated, white. 



10. Pentstemon geviiianoides coc- 26. Pelargonium, Frogmore, scarlet. 



cineus, scarlet. 27. Calceolaria bicolor, yellow and 



11. Ferbena purpurea, purple. whitish. 



12. iyotus jacobae^us luteus, yellow. 28. Jnagallis caeriilea grandiflora, 



13. Diplacus glutinosus, orange yel- dark blue. 



low, in the vase, with Lobelia 29. Nierembergia calycina, white, 



^rinus, blue, to droop over the 30. FerbenaTweedieflwrtlatifolia, crim- 

 sides ; and ffinothera macro- son. 



carpa, pale yellow, in the bed. 31. Petunia erubescens, blush. 



14. Pf/iiwia purpurea, purple. 32. Ferbena odorata rosea, pale pink. 



15. Ferbena Drummondii, pinkish 33. Pelargonium, variegated ivy- 



lilac, leaved, white. 



16. iZieliotropium peruvianum, violet. 34. .^geratum mexicaniim, pale blue. 



