200 GARDEN FL O WERS. 



Notwithstanding the great beauty of many double flowers, 

 there is much to be said in favor of the more humble 

 single-blooming kinds. 



The employment of herbaceous plants in the woods or 

 in grass is a charming method of displaying their most 

 characteristic beauties ; and for natural effects in connection 

 with rockwork very many varieties are invaluable. Within 

 the limits of the garden, however, and in the soil that can be 

 there readily prepared, hardy herbaceous plants will thrive 

 and grow as nowhere else. It may be somewhat less natural, 

 and perhaps less artistic, but it is human, and it suits the 

 flowers. I believe that the suggestion of any diagram 

 arrangement of herbaceous plants will be hardly profitable. 

 One would as easily suggest an arrangement for a bouquet 

 of flowers. It should be irregular, and so disposed as to 

 prevent one plant from obscuring the beauties of the others. 

 The large ones should come, as a rule, somewhere at the back, 

 and the next size nearer the front, and so on to the smallest. 

 It is simple enough. A knowledge of the habits of the 

 plants and good natural taste will do the work well if the 

 above general rule is followed. These herbaceous plants 

 may be planted effectively on the lawn in connection or in 

 front of the shrubberies. First trees, then shrubs, then 

 herbaceous plants or wild flowers, and finally grass. This 

 is the natural arrangement of siich lawn plantations. 



