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to let two species be placed close together, but to distribute 

 each species equally throughout every part of the house. The 

 same rule is applied to flower gardens, shrubberies, and plant- 

 ing in general ; but any one capable of reflecting on the sub- 

 ject will perceive, that it is as opposite to the principles of good 

 taste, and as destitute of connexion, variety, or character, as 

 the order of words in a dictionary is to that of common conver- 

 sation, or the arrangement of colours on a painter's pallet- 

 board is to that of the rainbow. 



This principle of arrangement is the most generally applica- 

 ble in ornamental gardening, whether we regard their general 

 distribution into lawn, flower, and shrubs ; or the smaller parts, 

 composed of flowers or shrubs only. Even a collection of 

 beauties, exhibited singly, may still be contrived agreeable to 

 this principle. Thus in a plot of finely varied auriculas each 

 minute variety may be kept by itself, and the same often 

 (though not always) in beds of tulips, hyacinths, and ranuncu- 

 luses. Artificial borderings, that is, flower borders along the 

 walks in gardens, or borders of flowers in papered rooms, or 

 indeed ornamental wreaths or borders of any kind, are formed 

 upon the principles of contrast and repetition. A small part of 

 that border, of a length more or less according with its breadth, ' 

 and the variety to be contained in it, is first formed by placing 

 together flowers of different forms and colours, so as to set off 



