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stone, and consist of an elaborate complication of design, iu 

 which coloured gravels, Box, and bedding-out plants aU [)ear a 

 part. The effect of this circular bed is much diminished from 

 the want of any point of view from which 

 to see it : being large and flat, only a 

 part of it can be well seen at a time. 



The triangular compartments have 

 both champions and oj)ponents. The point 

 on which greatest unanimity exists is the 

 effect of the oblong beds which form what 

 may be called the outer frame. In 1861 

 the arrangement was admkable ; the bed- 

 ding-out j)lants, to which the result was 

 due, consisted of a wide centre of the 

 Scarlet Crystal Palace Geranium, enclosed 

 iu a broad purple margin of Verbena vio- 

 lacea, which again was surrounded by a 

 narrower fringe of Orange Crystal Palace 

 Tropteolum. In 1862 the effect was less 

 strikinff, but more chaste ; the fringe was 



composed of one of the Silver-leaved Geraniums instead of the 

 brilliant Orange Tropseolum. The central design of these trian- 

 gular beds has been less appreciated, probably from being less 

 accessible to the eye. 



In spring these various beds are gay with Tuhps, Crocuses, 

 and other spring flowers ; and as each successive year comes 

 round they may be expected to become more gaUy and artisti- 

 cally decorated, as the wants and the capabilities of the Garden 

 become laetter known by experience. 



