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surrounding level, | 80 that all may be easily seen Rea 
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cultiva ator r than many aie in a slovenly condition. 
Allowing, them, that a _ cm better, when well 
= e; ere corne rin r Got ing, how various and | sur 
tions tl may thus be are Ae 
Vet 
that pad in winter or did no t appear - above ground 
thi SPURS Were it not for the expense of the 
med ! for 
ae our rage eee the e gro up being 
it, branching out like the s poke s of a wheel; plant t 
ce entr. e v with the Queen Victoria Crocus, a a Jove ely whit 
obdon shutters, to be used only in ex- 
arg economy in view, much 
ooden shutters eirt alone. 
course, in in planting, the period of growth should 
asi 
so that the winter pete and 
l distinct. The interest 
ity 
t under the par of 
‘circular form, one round bed in the centre ut six ro one 
on 
to row, and then hav ne beds amped with purple, 
two with yellow, Asa with blue, a how nicely 
they will look ! Or if oni tes border the white centre 
with purple, the blues ae yellow or moras nd 
the purples with white oF. be colours may be shai re d 
in each bed; perhaps ‘the e may be on y one circular 
bed near tho “house that re be devoted rocus, per. 
haps 9 or O fe eti in diameter ; this would look extremely | 
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arising even from the care requi ired to manage such a 
would be very eren and the Eke ‘would be 
sed AH B an Aes methi ig fr a to look at for the 
e year, fro w Hyacinths his ici in 
spring to “Gladioli and Belladonnas late in the 
is not aż all necessary ; a double wall of stout “toads 
Porat pi er 
be equally suitable. In 7 a wall or paling of hom 
a turf-pit, would be as good 
shades of eee white iee ed with re be, 8 
with vs, seit Age ith blue on the co 
system, varying t edad according as je Tert es 
path round the bea ‘s of a cold or a warm dentin If the 
shading of 3 
show that there has been thought mand design in the 
planting: but there is no end to the modes in which 
even a single bed may ke planted : we lately recom- 
men nded a a young lady t o plant a somew what larger, 
vather the Lover’s-knot style ; 
and she t old us that the effect was charming; the 
broadish bands of the knot me Aarre the enclosed 
e round the ba nds 
od 
avas blue, d tl 
we 
We have inst g so easily managed ; 
but the same artistic nest amma aire be as easily 
iss 
punting i as advi sed under each division, and lifting 
ft 
initi std d in 
and such a pit, sad such a mode of usi e heartily 
commend to all our correspondents, con P aiy ts “4 
those having suburban residences, with little ground 
we will Shortly state how this may be done and yet not 
‘interfere holt a e ge ee the beds for Vedding 
plants. In able s the beds of summer 
: i nd t 
on a quiet, dnll da ay. $0 1 much for mn prc- 
>e pe ca blooming aaia, Crocus, 
Scillas, and the earliest will have pretty well 
ripened the hits oat the beginnir a of May; and me 
fore may tee refully lifted an 
garden, and watered a little bate ihe the leaves Galle 
decay ; even the ny Baer. sent ne on and Sata 
ra inh nd the Ye the Hyacinths and Nar 
years, and ra Salor would have the 
satisfaction of feeling that he did everything that he 
coul to Pants, Us the healt wth alike of bulbs 
and plan A nd, shaded 
afterwards; but the rand care w be ned 
if the bulbs were in pots. Tulips need this po war 2 
much (if they must be moved when done flowering, to 
goo 
as any thing, so he mindek went; but the great 
vances ia +: is ae? pe Ains 
a S 
a 
detest 
finest bulbs. On this accoun 
ling pla A row pit of t 
ind, some 20, or more fi in 
le rding to taste and con- 
venience, would, except in the few 
dark months in the year, yield a plea- 
sure second to e that a garden 
c afford; and that pleasure will 
in proportion th 
skill, attention, and labour bestowed. 
he t notes in the body 
e Ca ‘an, ee ben er Ae ba un- 
he rig ent; 
MYC ae 
ARICUS gorse soni Dee.— 
egi 
OLOGY.—No. 
for the future if a c p is given to the foliage. 
ng a Pit for Tender Bulbs.—It is well known 
e tlie ae ily, Ixias, Irids of the tenderest 
‘kinds, Alstrcemerias, many of the hardier Amaryllids, 
Japan Lilies, Agapanthus, &c., bloom well for years 
a excelente 0 at the oer a fruit a ho 
or even greenhouse. 
wal at the foot of an 
‘treated with = 
7 oon peg 
say 5 feet wide: the bottom thoroughly d 
open stratum of rubble above that, of 9 or 12 inches, 
and a staple of sweet, sandy loam of 18 inches over 
all. This would enable all thè bulbs to be planted 
t ttom was solid 
low the rubble, oaii =~ not, in th of 
the larger bulbs, be chance vo their roots 
getting too deep; with su su e, the staple 
i or rotten kat mou wee 
according to the: amai of each kind; and, once 
d; 
ea the fhe: gate ould bloom wiser a eid: amet that | 
rarely be ¢ with under mere 
ch a pit wad. need pro ree only ie the ni inter 
mer mph known ia the present jo its Ea 
whick is besides more or less streaked 
is a much suspected species, and if 
A ti 
used at all should be used with cola aution. 
A. gloiocephalus was first discovered by Decandolle 
in the pig hboor esos of Menheilion and is Seed vd 
at tab. 645, H.I. ee other. figures be 
e 
ahel "E shining, ‘quite 
ooth; margin striate, in 
an 
more than 2 feet above the soil inside a back, and one | 
for a third of the length of the ea in ‘order to give 
foot in front, making 4 feet as back altogether, 
in front, the half, if deemed arime? being below the inv spring : the wooden covers wo 
A. speciosus, to which it is closely 
