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No. 3. — Outside, Alternanthera aurea nana ; middle, Alternanthera 



amoena spectabilis ; center, Antliemis ooronaria. I 

 No. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 may eacii be filled with a single color, or given a 



border of suitable plants if the planter so chooses. 

 No. 9. — Ground, Alternanthera aurea nana ; center, Acalypha 



tricolor ; black dots, scarlet geranium. 

 No. 10. — Ground of Centaurea gymnocarpa ; circle, Achyranthes 



Lindeni ; cross, Golden coleus. 

 No. 11. — Border, Oxahs tropaeoloides ; center, blue heliotrope, blue 

 ageratum, or Acalypha marginata ; cross about the center, Thymus 

 argenteuSjOr centaurea ; scallop outside the cross,blue lobelia ; corners, 

 inside border, santolina. 



Designs 13 and 14 are, in character, somewhat in the style of a 

 parterre; but instead of the intervening spaces in the bed being 

 ordinary walks they are of grass. Such beds are of a useful type, be- 

 cause they may be made large and yet be executed with a compara- 

 tively small number of plants. They are especially suitable for the 

 center of an open plot of lawn with definite formal boundaries on all 

 sides, such as walks or drives. Whether they are to be composed of 

 tall-growing or of low-growing plants will depend upon the distance 

 they are to be from the observer. For a moderate-sized plot the 

 following plants might be used : — 



No. 13. — Border, red alternanthera; second row, dwarf orange or 

 yellow nasturtium; third row, Achyranthes Gilsoni, or Acalypha 

 tricolor; central square, scarlet geraniums, with a border of Cen- 

 taurea gymnocarpa; intervening spaces, grass. Instead of the 

 square of geraniums, a vase might be substituted, or a clump of 

 Salvia splendens. 

 No. 14. — Composite beds like this and the former are always sug- 

 gestive. They contain various features which niay readily be re- 

 combined into other patterns. Sometimes it may be convenient 

 to use only portions of the design. The reader should feel that no 

 arrangement is arbitrary, but merely a suggestion that he may 

 use with the utmost freedom, only keeping harmony in view. For 

 No. 14, the following may be an acceptable planting arrangement: 

 Border, Mme. Salleroi geranium ; small dots, dwarf scarlet trope- 

 olum ; diamonds, blue lobelia ; crescents, Stevia serrata variegata ; 



