34 BRECK’S NEW BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
out, and occupying about the centre of the lawn; when these 
are well kept, the freshness and verdure of the green 
turf, gives a fine corftrast to the flower beds, and adds 
very much to the brilliant colors of the flowers themselves. 
In some of the beds, I would aim at producing splendid 
masses of one color, and in others, such as the largest beds, 
a mixed and choice collection of annuals, which would give 
a variegated mass of colors throughout the season: in 
other beds by themselves, I would fill up with exotic 
flowers, or flowering shrubs, such as are brought forward 
under glass for bedding out, such as Heliotropes, Lan- 
tanas, Bouvardias, Geraniums, Fuchsias, Ageratums, Ver- 
benas, etc. e 
The following collection and arrangement for a large 
oval bed will be found to give a brilliant display of colors 
from July to November. In the first row, Mignonette to 
be sown all round the border, eighteen inches from the 
edging ; after the seed is through the ground, plant all the 
various colors of Portulaca alternately, one foot apart in 
the same row. The second row, three feet from the edg- 
ing, plant all the fine mixed colors of Phlox Drummondii, 
eight inches from each other. The third row, four feet 
from the edging, sow with white Candytuft, planting all the 
fine varieties of China Pink three inches apart in the same 
row. The fourth row, five feet from the edging, plant 
with Purple Globe Amaranth eight inches apart, with a 
German Ten Week Stock between the Amaranths. The 
fifth row, six feet from the edging, plant alternately, 
all the various colors of fine’double German Asters, six 
inches apart in the row. The space remaining in the 
centre, fill.with all the different colors of the Petunia, 
planting one foot apart amongst the Petunias, bulbs of 
all the fine colors of the Hybrid Gladiolus, which, when in 
bloom with their long densely flowered racemes of blos- 
soms, varying from white to salmon and carmine, scarlet 
