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that continue long in perfection, as the honeysuckle, rose 

 acacia, Sec, 



5. A parterre of bulbous roots requires to be somewhat diffe- 

 rent, in form and design, from any of the above. The general 

 form ought to be regular. It may be a square, a circle, or 

 oval, divided into compartments, and each of these laid out 

 into beds of three or four feet broad. Here may be grown the 

 different varieties of tulips, hyacinths, ranunculuses, anemo- 

 nies, &c. each in their proper soil*. It may contain a stove 

 for the Ixias Amaryllis, and similar exotic bulbs ; and near it 

 may be placed the auricula and carnation shed. 



6. Gardens may also be made solely for the purpose of cul- 

 tivating any single family, genus, or species of plant or shrub, 

 as a garden of roses — of annual flowers—of pinks and carnations 

 ■ — of double flowering plants and trees — of variegated kinds only, 

 &c. : — or of ferns — of grasses — or of the vegetables, natives of 

 any particular country, as those of America, Siberia, the 

 Alps, &c. 



7. An ancient British flower-garden may be laid out agree- 



See Maddox's Florist's Directory. 



