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No. 3. — Outside, Alternanthera aurea nana; middle, Alternantlera 
amecena spectabilis; center, Anthemis coronaria. 
No. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 may each be filled with a single color, or given a 
border of suitable plants if the planter so chooses. 
No. 9.— Ground, Alternanthera aurea nana; center, Acalypha 
tricolor; black dots, scarlet geranium. 
No. 10.— Ground of Centaurea gymnocarpa; circle, Achyranthes 
Lindeni; cross, Golden coleus. 
No. 11.— Border, Oxalis tropeoloides; center, blue heliotrope, blue 
ageratum, or Acalypha marginata; cross about the center, Thymus 
argenteus, or centaurea ; scallop outside the cross, blue lobelia ; corners, 
inside border, santolina. 
Designs 13 and 14 are, in character, somewhat in the style ofa 
parterre; but instead of the intervening spaces in the bed being 
ordinary walks they are of grass. Such beds are of a useful type, be- 
cause they may be made large and yet be executed with a compara- 
tively small number of plants. They are especially suitable for the 
center of an open plot of lawn with definite formal boundaries on all 
sides, such as walks or drives. Whether they are to be composed of 
tall-growing or of low-growing plants will depend upon the distance 
they are to be from the observer. For a moderate-sized plot the 
following plants might be used : — 
No. 13. — Border, red alternanthera; second row, dwarf orange or 
yellow nasturtium; third row, Achyranthes Gilsoni, or Acalypha 
tricolor ; central square, scarlet geraniums, with a border of Cen- 
taurea gymnocarpa; intervening spaces, grass. Instead of the 
square of geraniums, a vase might be substituted, or a clump of 
Salvia splendens. 
No. 14. — Composite beds like this and the former are always sug- 
gestive. They contain various features which may readily be re- 
combined into other patterns. Sometimes it may be convenient 
to use only portions of the design. The reader should feel that no 
arrangement is arbitrary, but merely a suggestion that he may 
use with the utmost freedom, only keeping harmony in view. For 
No. 14, the following may be an acceptable planting arrangement: 
Border, Mme. Salleroi geranium; small dots, dwarf scarlet trope- 
olum; diamonds, blue lobelia; crescents, Stevia serrata variegata; 
