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flowering, the gardener will experience little 

 difficulty. 



The spring-blooming flowers — Crocus, Nar- 

 cissus, and Wallflowers — may be accorded full 

 space for display, and the first two will die 

 down and their places be taken by the over- 

 hang of the later flowering plants, which you 

 will put in close proximity to their then dor- 

 mant bulbs. The wallflowers will be rooted 

 up and their places taken by Stocks, Zinnias, 

 and Dahlias. 



Till midsummer there will be opportunity for 

 inserting new plants in place of those which 

 have bloomed, and the natural expansion of 

 the others will keep the borders full for the 

 remainder of the season. 



As a further guide to the gardener, I have 

 embodied in the appendix some tables of 

 particulars of the more useful flowers and 

 vegetables, including time of planting and 

 season of blooming. 



It only remains to add that, in writing these 

 directions for the planning of villa gardens, I 

 make no pretence to teach the principles of 



