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instead of on the damp soil. These stones 

 are to be raked off in autumn, when the 

 flowering season is past, and laid by to 

 bleach with the rains of winter till the 

 following planting season arrives. The soil 

 to be used is of a light sandy nature, a 

 strong soil in so damp a climate being the 

 worst adapted for flower-garden borders. 



The artistic decorations in this garden 

 are the great extent of parapet- walls, with 

 their vases, balustrading, &c, the flights of 

 steps, enclosed within polished stone mar- 

 gins and with low hand-rails, with vases 

 placed on plinths at top and bottom. A 

 fountain occupies the centre of the square 

 garden, while two colossal vases occupy 

 the pedestals near the two ends of the 

 longitudinal garden, and Canova's Hebe 

 the centre pedestal. 



In this Plate we have attempted to give 

 in colours the arrangement of the plants 

 in the various beds ; and, so far as we are 

 aware, this is done for the first time. In 

 the longitudinal parterre, on the highest 

 terrace next the mansion, it will be ob- 

 served that only the three primary colours, 

 red, yellow, and blue, are employed — using, 

 to produce those colours, Calceolaria am- 

 plexicaule, pegged down, for the yellow 

 centre beds; Nemophilla insignia, blue, 

 for the side ones, on one side ; and Ver- 

 bena melindres, scarlet, for the opposite 

 side. The whole of this parterre is mar- 

 gined with polished stone edgings ; but, 

 on account of the circular figures, box 

 edging is used to separate the narrow 

 walks, laid with white sea-shingle from 

 the earthen borders, thus throwing in the 

 two neutral colours, white and green. In 

 the smaller flower-garden, in front of the 

 conservatory, the sides of all the walks 

 being in straight lines and acute angles, 

 the edging employed is polished stone, and 

 the same material is used for the surface 

 of the walks. The dark-shaded square at 

 each corner is occupied with a vase set on 

 a proportioned plinth ; and, as the beds are 

 small, the following dwarf-growing plants 

 are to be employed to produce the requi- 

 site colours, viz. — The five scarlet beds are 

 planted with Verbena Tweediana gran- 

 diflora ; the four central yellow ones with 

 Calceolaria amplexicaule ; and the four 

 side yellow ones are sown with Lasthenia 

 californica. The five blue beds are sown 

 with Brachycome ibiridifolia var. cserulea, 

 pegged down. The three purple beds are 

 vol. r. 



sown with Campanula Lorei, and the four 

 green beds with mignonette, the nearest 

 approach to green we have fitted for the 

 purpose. The square garden around the 

 fountain is planted with two primary 

 colours, red and yellow — the former pro- 

 duced by Anagallis grandiflora and Sapo- 

 naria calabrica, one in each bed ; and 

 Anthemis arabica, and Sanvitalia pro- 

 cumbens, to produce the latter colour, 

 also one in each bed. 



The longitudinal garden in the centre 

 or second terrace is to be planted as fol- 

 lows : The four blue beds in the marginal 

 lines to be planted with Anagallis cserulea; 

 the remaining sixteen blue beds to be 

 planted alternately with Convolvolus 

 minor and Lupinus nanus ; the four mar- 

 ginal yellow beds to be planted with 

 yellow calecolarias, pegged down ; while 

 the twenty-one yellow beds towards 

 the centre of the figure are to be sown 

 with Anthemis arabica, Lupinus luteus, 

 pegged down, and Lasthenia californica, 

 planted alternately. The four scarlet 

 beds in the external line to be sown with 

 Dianthus chinensis, and Saponaria cala- 

 brica; and the twenty scarlet beds to- 

 wards the centre of the figure to be 

 planted with scarlet verbenas of different 

 varieties. The eight rose-coloured beds 

 to be sown with Clarkia pulchella var. 

 rosea, Anagallis arvensis, and Rhodanthe 

 manglesii. The green beds to be sown 

 with mignonette. 



The lower garden, or third terrace, is 

 to be filled with plants of larger growth, 

 being farther from the windows. The 

 red beds to be entirely planted with 

 scarlet pelargoniums, retained in their 

 pots and plunged, and pegged down. 

 The marginal yellow borders to be sown 

 with Eschscholtzia californica; and the 

 three central ones filled with yellow cal- 

 ceolarias, planted pretty close, so as to 

 cover the space, and to be allowed to 

 attain their natural height. The four 

 larger blue beds towards the points of the 

 Gothic figure to be planted with Salvia 

 patens; the others with Centaurea cyanus, 

 Lupinus elegans, Lobelia heterophylla, 

 L. ramosa, and Gilia capitata, alternately; 

 the six purple beds with purple candy- 

 tuft and Prismatocarpus Speculum alter- 

 nately. The six dark- coloured beds to 

 be filled with Scabiosa atropurpura, or 

 the darkest shades of dahlias, pegged 



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