AND GROUNDS. 17$ 



bushes, after the leaves fall, is a serious objection to thetti when 

 compared with the cheerful elegance of a well-formed evergreen 

 group at all seasons of the year. The other flower-beds are. 

 small, and of the simplest forms. Beds i, i, i, i should be filled 

 in spring with bulbous flowers, and later with verbenas, portulaccas. 

 Phlox drummondi, escholtzias, or similar low plants. Beds 2, 2 may 

 have three geraniums in each, the largest variety in the middle.. 

 Beds 3 and 5, in the wall-corners, should have some little evergreen 

 vines, say English or Irish ivies, planted in the extreme corner, 

 with heliotrope and mignonette around them. Bed 4 may be 

 planted as suggested in the description of Plate VIII. Beds. 

 6, 6, 6, 6 may be filled with four varieties of cannas of about equal 

 height ; 7, 7, and 9 with low bulbs in spring, and later with gladioli! 

 in the centre and petunias or other flowers of similarly brilliant 

 and abundant bloom, around them. Bed 8 to have a mountain-of- 

 snow geranium, or a Wigandia caracasana in the centre, and three 

 robust plants of Colleus verschdfelti on the points ; 10 is a mass of 

 cannas ; 1 1 may be a bed of hollyhocks, -with a tall sort in the: 

 centre, and low varieties around it. We have merely suggested the 

 flowers for the various . beds as a starting-point for persons unfa- 

 miliar with flowers. Most intelligent ladies, as well as gardeners, 

 are more familiar with flolver culture than with any other garden- 

 ing art, and will be able to vary the beds from year to year, and to- 

 improve on the selections here given. They will also learn hj 

 experiment, better than they can be told, the best materials to- 

 use in embellishing with flowers and wreathing leaves, the vases 

 near the entrance steps. 



Plate X. 



A Simple Plan for Planting an Interior Lot two hundred feet front 

 and three hundred feet deep. 



This plan represents a large mansion on an in-lot two hundred 

 feet front by three hundred feet deep. Plate XI is the same house 

 and lot treated more elaborately. The same differences, carried 

 out on a larger scale, may be observed between these two plans of 



