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liant display of flowers which it produces at the desired season. 

 The last time we saw it, previously to writing this paragraph, 

 was on July 28., when it was in great splendour. On entering, 

 the parapet wall, with its numerous vases filled with choice 

 specimens, and the wall itself varied by the masses of nastur- 

 tium, had a striking appearance ; beyond which, the conservative 

 wall, with its roses, fine specimens of Lonicera implexa. Clematis 

 florida and SieboldtzY, Sollyfl-, Mauriandya, &c., had a fine effect. 

 The large compartment to the right, in front of the drawing- 

 room window (^inj^o-. 79.), was surrounded by a hedge of sweet 

 peas, and immediately within that a row of Eschscholtzm crocea. 

 AH the beds in this garden were covered with species which 

 do not rise above 3 or 4 inches from the ground, or are pegged 

 down, so as never to exceed that height; chiefly verbenas, 

 lobelias, and the dwarf phloxes. The drawingroora floor being 

 3 or 4 feet above the level of this garden, the symmetrical figure 

 formed by the beds is distinctly recognised from it. In the 

 borders which are on each side of the four cross walks, dahlias 

 were already finely in flower, having been brought forward in 

 pits ; and many of the standard roses were still in bloom, and 

 in very great beauty. Convolvulus americanus, which re- 

 sembles C. sepium, but with a darker flower, made a fine display 

 on the central arbour. Among plants which grow in the shade, 

 we could not help being struck with the great beauty of CEno- 

 thera speciosa, white ; and Z/ysimachia verticillata, yellow. We 

 were not aware that the Oenothera would grow so vigorously, 

 and flower so beautifully, in the dense shade of trees ; but such 

 appears to be the case. Crucianella corymbosa, pale pink, is 

 a new and very desirable plant for small beds, as are ^thio- 

 nema and Campanula garganica; for which last species the coun- 

 try is indebted to Mrs. Palliser. The beds on the lawn in the 

 front of the house struck us as having a particularly good effect ; 

 which, on reflection, we think must have been owing, not solely 

 to their being filled with the finest flowers, all in bloom, but to 

 their being contrasted with the naked spaces of the lawn. If 

 the circumferential and other main walks in the large flower- 

 garden were as broad again as they are at present, we think 

 that, on the same principle, the effect of the rest of the garden 

 would be improved; for all effect, whether in a picture or a 

 garden, depends on contrast. — Co7id.'} 



Art. II. Of the Analogy between Plants and Animals. By J. A. W. 



Many persons buy a plant and plant it in their garden, as they 

 would purchase a piece of furniture and place it in a room, and 

 fancy that the one requires no more after-care than the other: but, 



