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Oil Laying out and Planting 



Such designs as those before us are peculiarly suitable for some parts of 

 Scotland, where, in the case of a hollow, the plants may be such as require 

 moist soil or peat earth ; and, in the case of a hill, such as delight in dry 

 sandy soil. 



In England we have seen such gardens (certainly on a smaller scale than 

 those here represented) formed on artificial knolls ; and we could refer to 



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Fig. 118. Flowcr-Garden adapted for a Hill with a Sandy Soil. 

 Scale 24 ft. to an inch. 



one in which the walks are not laid with gravel or edged in any way, but 

 planted with different species and varieties of dwarf thyme, such as mother 

 of thyme, lemon thyme, green thyme, variegated thyme, &c. For example : 

 in the design, _/"g. 118., the longest walk consists of a series of loops inter- 

 secting one another : this walk may be planted with mother of thyme, and 

 the short straight walks which join the loops may be planted with green 



