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them into good winter arrangements as soon as 

 fiost destroys the tender kinds. The arrangements 

 are designed on the principle of avoiding undue 

 excess of formality, by introducing what, for lack 

 of a better term, we still call "dot" plants; thus 

 rendering the woi-d "carpet " as applied to the style 

 inappropriate. This, however, is a matter of little 

 consequence so long as the change is an improve- 

 ment, which it undoubtedly is. 



bedding, being quite hardy, very little trouble to 

 keep in form, and almost pure white ; this, placed as 

 it is between Nos. 2 and 4, the one creamy-yellow 

 and the other a glaucous blue, forms a combination 

 of colour that no arrangement of flowering plants 

 can excel. 



This arrangement is the most formal that under 

 any circumstances should ever be attempted. It 

 would be a telling bed for the middle portion of two 



SCALE OF FEET 



Fig. 5.— Carpet BEDDiNii. 



1, Eaised edging of Sempervivum calcareum (commonly called S. calif ornicum in gardens) ; 2, Sedum 

 acre eleguns variegata ; 3, Auiennaria tomentosa; 4, Kleiuia repens, or Echeveria Peacockii ; 

 5. Spergiila prolitera aurea, centre Chamsepeuce Ca abonaB ; 6, Alternanthera spectabilis, centre 

 Lady Plymouth Geranium ; 7, Pyretbrum, Gold Feather ; ^, dark Alternanthera, or Ajuga rep- 

 tans purpurea ; 9, Iresine Liudeni ; 10, ChamaBpeuce diacantha. 



Plan Fig. 5 will, perhaps, best convey our 

 meaning as to what are to be considered " Hot " 

 plants, by indicating the positions for them, these 

 being Nos. 5, 6, and 10 on the plan ; and to further 

 break the flatness of the arrangement, the ground- 

 work in No. 7 should be allowed to grow higher than 

 that plant (Gold Feather Pyrethrum) usually is, and 

 thus the height of the central portion will be con- 

 siderably greater than that of the outer part. 

 Though marked separately, the edging and enclos- 

 ing band, Nos. 1 and 2, may really only be one line-; 

 or rather, the Sempervivum should be confined to 

 the upright edging, and the Sedum planted in it 

 as well as on the flat margin. No. 3, Antennaria 

 tomentosa, is the perfection of a plant for carpet 



sots of beds of a less formal pattern, or as a hloeh led 

 to divide a given set of beds in one aspect — 

 say south — from a similar set looking east, this 

 bed being placed in the south-east angle. Of course 

 it may be of any size required, only the larger it is, 

 just to that extent should be the turf surrounding 

 it. The drawing of the design on the ground is 

 solely a question of exact measurements. Being 

 straight lines throughout, a line and ireasuring-rod 

 with pegs and string for describing the small circles 

 are all that is needed. 



Plan Pig. 6 is one of the best carpet patterns, 

 which, though it looks intricate, is not really so, 

 there being no difiiculty at all in filling out every 



