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angle, ■whicli it is needless to say must be the case for 

 the design to be effective.. The planting arrange- 

 ment here given is an exact copy of one actually 

 done very recently ; but a greater number of hardy 

 plants would be used had we to do it again, and the 

 Lobelia would be left out entirely, because of its 

 failure before the end of the summer. This design 

 is also an excellent one to fill wholly with hardy 

 plants for the winter ; and if we were called upon to 



thus are formed the six flat-iron-like points, and. 

 also the sides of the six triangular beds. The outer 

 sides of the triangles are formed by running the 

 string round the central stake, and so is the broad 

 line of the six pointed beds. Again we repeat that 

 exact measurement should be the first consideration. 



Plan Eig. 7 may suit some tastes better, and 

 it is certainly much easier to plant, and the greater 



SCALE OF FEET 

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Fig. 6. — Caepet Bedding. 

 Eaised edging of Hemiaria glabra; 1, ground-work at 

 Sedum glancum; 2, Alternanthera amabilis latifolia; 

 3, Mesembryanthemum cordifolium variegatuin, and 

 a central plant oJ Eoheveria metallioa; 4, Lobelia 

 pnmila, dark blue; 5, Pyrethrum, Gold Featber; 

 6, Coleus or Iresine; 7, central plant, Draotena ans- 

 tralis, surrounded with Centaurea candidissima. 



SO furnish it, the edging would be as now, also No. 1 ; 

 then No. 2 might be then hardy British plant, Ajuga 

 reptms purpurea ; No. 3, the golden-tipped Stone- 

 crop, Sedum acre elegana, with a small plant in the 

 middle of it, of Emnymus variegata aurea ; No. 4, 

 Erka herhacea purpurea; No. 5, as now. Gold 

 Feather Pyrethrum ; No. 6, small plants of Betino- 

 spora plumosa ; and No. 7, golden variegated Holly. 

 We have practically tested this winter arrangement, 

 .and consider it a gem of the first water. 



The marking out here is done by first getting the 

 exact centre of the bed, into which a stout stake is 

 put for the purpose of describing the outer circle by 

 running a string round it : this line is then divided 

 into six parts, and -a good peg is put at each divi- 

 sion, from which point another string measur- 

 ing to the next point is run round the peg, and 



Fig. 7.— Caepet Beddinq. 



1, Sedum glaucum, and Echeveria secunda glauca ; 2, Alter- 

 nantbera magnifioa, and dot plant of Sempervivum 

 arboreum variegata; 3, Alternanthera paronycboides 

 aurea, and dot plant of Echeveria metallica ; 4, Sedum 

 Lydium, green, and Pachypbytum bracteosum ; 5, Her- 

 niaria glabra, green, and Kleinia repens ; 6, _ ground- 

 work of Mesembryantbemum cordifolium variegatum, 

 filled out with various kinds of tree succulents. 



width for colour makes it more suitable than Eig. 6 

 for distant positions. If the star part be made a. 

 step higher than the circle, in the same way as 

 advised for raised edgings, and the star-edge 

 planted with Sedum glancum, as well as the margin, 

 the effect would be greatly enhanced. This plan is 

 an excellent one for the small grass-plot of a villa, 

 the planting in such a position to be as follows : — 

 No. 1, Sedum glaucum; No. 2, edging of Gold 

 Eeather Pyrethrum, with blue Lobelia in centre ; 

 No. 3, also Gold Feather edging with Ageratum in 

 centre ; Nos. 4 and 5, the green Serniaria glabra, 

 with small Echeverias planted in it ; No. 6, a line of 

 small plants — ^pegged — of golden variegated Euony- 

 mus, and the middle, any bright-coloured Geranium, 

 which in winter time might be replaced with small 

 shrubs or a good plant of Yucca recurva. The only 



