148 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



chrysum bracteatum surrounded by VerBenia auble- 

 tia, and two with Heliotropium peruvianum. The 

 square g (in the blue flower garden) begins with 

 double hyacinths, which are arranged in the 

 four compartments shaded in four colors and 

 planted as close as possible. Then follow, but 

 in a different arrangement, Gomphrena globosa in 

 three colors; h, the cornucopia has a yellow 

 tip, which is made up throughout the year with 

 flowers of Mimulus guttatus, which must be put 

 in at various times in order to last till late au- 

 tumn. Its other sections are variegated in color 

 by Silene bipartita, Viola grandiflora, and Lobelia 

 ericoides. But the mouth where the cornucopia 

 pours out a great mass of flowers is filled through- 

 out the summer with all sorts of bright flowers 

 in pots embedded in moss and some pumpkins 

 placed among them, to make the contours of the 

 outpour as indistinguishable as possible. 



All figures of this complicated kind are as a 

 rule bordered with boxwood outlining their 

 form more clearly and firmly, which flower bor- 

 ders can never do with such precision. But 

 with single beds of regular, simple shape, such 

 as circles, ovals, squares, unless wicker edging is 

 preferred, I make use of any of the low flowers 

 which serve the purpose of bordering. Such a 

 border, however, must never be used around 

 shrubs irregular in contour, which would thus 

 give a stiflf appearance. 



For climbing plants various trellises are made 

 of strong wire, which in themselves are quite 



