36 BRECK’S NEW BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
Dwarf-rocket Lackspur in variety; all the beautiful Ne- 
mophilas, etc. With good taste in their arrangement so 
that all the colors are well blended, these flowers will make 
a very brillant show through all the summer.” 
PLANTS. FOR BEDDING. 
There is no more pleasing or tasteful arrangement of 
certain flowers than disposing of them in masses upon the 
margin of a Jawn, or in a grass plot in figures cut out in 
the grass. These figures should not look stiff and set, as 
they will, if laid out in squares, parallelograms, or triangles, 
but there should be ease and grace in their appearance, 
Figures with gentle curves should be adopted, fern-leaved 
shaped scrolls, or any other fanciful form which may be 
adopted by a person of taste, and no one should be em- 
ployed for laying out these beds, who has not an eye to 
the beautiful. 
No disposition of plants can be made which will be so 
satisfactory and pleasing as flowers massed in this way, 
provided the grass be kept smooth and close.—The figures 
are first marked out with stakes; the sods carefuly taken 
out, and the edges of the beds pared true with a sharp 
spade or turf-parer. The space should be filled up with 
rich garden mould, and compost, sufficient, after it has been 
dug and settled, to raise the beds in the centre—so as to 
have them crowning. They are then ready for the recep- 
tion of the plants. As a general rule, one variety or one color 
should be in each bed; but where there is a limited extent 
of ground, two or three colors may be disposed in one 
figure, for example red, rose, and white will harmonize, or 
purple dark blue, light blue and white; blue and scarlet, 
bright red and yellow; orange, yellow, sulphur and white, 
and many other combinations and shades harmonize, But 
blue and yellow should not stand side by side, nor dull 
red and yellow. It will be found a very interesting study 
