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mond shape, or triangular. Masses of annuals may be so 
arranged as to make a grand display in the common flow- 
er-garden. We have seen the walks of an extensive flow- 
er-garden deeply edged with a wide border of crimson and 
scarlet Portulacas; and, throughout the whole garden, 
all the annuals, and other plants, in fact, were planted in 
‘masses. We have never seen a better managed garden 
than this one. It contained about an acre of ground. 
Not more than twenty or thirty kinds of annuals were 
cultivated in the garden, and of this class of plants more 
than one-half of the ground*was filled, They consisted of 
every variety of Double Balsams, German Asters, Drum- 
monds, Phlox, Coreopsis, Amaranths, Verbenas, Portu- 
lacas, Double China Pinks, Petunias, Mignionette, Cocks- 
combs, Gilli-flowers, etc. 
ON THE CULTURE OF HARDY DECIDUOUS AND 
EVERGREEN SHRUBS. 
«T like a shrubbery too, it looks so fresh; 
And then there is some variety about it. 
In spring, the Lilac and the Snowball flower, 
And the Laburnum with its golden strings 
Waving in the wind ; and when the autumn comes, 
The bright red berries of the Mountain-ash, 
With pines enough, in winter, to look green, 
And show that something lives.” 
The flower-garden will be incomplete without a shrub- 
bery. A collection of shrubs and trees, embracing the 
different varieties to be obtained at our nurseries, will add 
much to the interest of the pleasure-ground. They should 
not be planted at regular distances, or in straight lines, as 
in that way they look too set and unnatural; but, when 
grouped together, the various sorts gracefully intermin- 
