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BEDDING PLANTS, 



large plants as canuas and acalyphas to emphasize and re- 

 lieve anything like a flat monotonous effect. Even in the 

 park at the foot of Canal Street, New York, one of the 

 roughest and dirtiest of neighborhoods, where green grass 

 is a priceless boon, a bit of massed cannas, acalyphas, 

 coleuses, and geraniums have been introduced effectively 

 without injuring the open centre grass effect. 



Shade is of course all impoi-tant to the small city park, 

 and the shade of large trees is entirely de- 

 structive to the growth of bedding plants, 

 which need sun and air in abundance. 



FOUNTAIN. 



I. CANNAS- 



V.. COLEUS VEHSCHAFFELTII. 

 i. COLEUS KIRKPATRICK. 

 .4. GERANIUM (bLACK HAWk). 



5. GERANIUM (gENERAL GRANt). 



6. alternanthera (yellow). 



7. alternanthera (red). 



8. acalypha tricolor, 

 a. acalypha macrophylla. 



0. SALVIA SPLENDENS. 



1. 60LANUM WARSCEWICZI010E8. 



2. CASTOR-OIL PLANT. 



3. ERYTHRINA CRISTA-GALLI. 



4. VINCA ROSEA. 



' 1 INCH. 



15. LANTANA 0ELICATIS8IMA. 



16. CENTAUREA CANDIDISSIMA. 



17. PYRETHRUM AUREUM. 



18. DATURA. 



GREENSWARD. 



There are plenty of nooks, however, for bedding plants in 

 small city parks that are not shaded, where they may be 

 planted with excellent effect, adding mnch to the pleasure 

 of many people. 



The system of bedding adopted ai-ound the Arsenal in 

 Central Park shows the frequently recurring example al- 

 ready mentioned of a A\all bordei-ed with grass and decorated 

 with bedding plants. The large kinds, like cannas, castor- 

 oil plants, solanums, etc., are naturally ari-anijed ai^ainst the 



