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FLOWER GARDEN. 



Neatness should be the prevailing characteristic of a' 

 Flower Garden, and it should be so situated as to form 

 an ornamental appendage to the house ; and where 

 circumstances will admit, placed before windows ex- 

 posed to a southern or south-eastern aspect. The 

 principle on which it is laid out, ought to be that of 

 exhibiting a variety of colour and form, so blended as 

 to present one beautiful whole. Jn a small Flower 

 Garden, viewed from tfife windows of a house, this 

 effect is best produced by beds, or borders formed on 

 the side of each other, and parallel to the windows 

 from whence they are seen, as by that position the 

 colours show themselves to the best advantage. In a 

 retired part of the garden, a rustic seat may be formed, 

 over and around which honey-suckles and other sweet 

 and ornamental creepers and climbers may be trained 

 on trellises, so as to afford a pleasant retirement. 



Although the greatest display is produced by a ge- 

 neral Flower Garden, that is, by cultivating such a 

 variety of sorts in one bed or border, as may nearly 

 insure a constant blooming, yet bulbous plants, while 

 essential to the perfection of the Flower Garden, lose 

 something of their peculiar beauty when not cultivated 

 by themselves. The extensive variety of bulbous 

 roots furnish means for the formation of a garden, the 

 beauty of which arising from an intermixture of every 

 variety of form and colour, would well repay the trou- 

 ble of cultivation, particularly as by a judicious selec- 

 tion and management, a succession of bloom may be 

 kept up for some length of time. As, however, bul- 

 bous flowers lose their richest tints about the time that 



