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GARDENESQUE STYLE OF FLOWER-GARDENS. 



23. Potentilla ; 24. Primula ; 25. Ranun- 

 culus ; 26. Salvia; 27. Saxifraga; 28. Se- 



dum; 29. Silene; 30. Spirgea; 31. Statice ; 

 32. Uvularia ; 33. Iris ; 34. Chelone ; 35. 

 Armeria ; 36. Ly thrum ; 37. Astragalus ; 

 38. Euphorbia ; 39. Helonias ; 40. Alys- 

 sum; 41. Lychnis; 42. Asclepias ; 43. 

 Coronella ; 44. Acanthus ; 45. Fraxinella; 

 46. Achillea; 47. Orobus ; 48. Yucca; 

 49. Scabiosa ; 50. Dianthus ; 51. Mno- 

 thera. 



The grass garden. — the natural order 

 Graminese form a very interesting garden, 

 but must, at the same time, be considered 

 as pertaining more to botanical science 

 than to garden display. They, however, 

 claim our attention as being so intimately 

 connected with the useful arts and the 

 food of man. Each species should be 

 grown in a flower-pot in proportion to 

 its size, or planted in patches divided from 

 each other by brickwork 9 or more inches 

 square, or by enclosing them with slate 

 or stone pavement, to prevent intermix- 

 ture by their roots. As most grasses seed 

 abundantly, it will be necessary, at the 

 season the seeds are beginning to ripen, 



to cut off the flower-stalk, to prevent in- 

 termixture by that means. 



The hardy heath gar- 

 den. — A collection of 

 hardy Ericese forms of 

 itself a very interesting 

 detached garden at all 

 seasons of the year. The 

 same necessity does not 

 occur here of enclosing 

 within a proper bound- 

 ary of trees or shrubs 

 as in the case of the 

 rosarium, for the heaths 

 are at all times suffi- 

 ciently ornamental in 

 themselves to claim a 

 place, and that a promi- 

 nent one too, on the 

 lawn, in the gardenesque 

 style of grounds. The 

 most perfect specimen of 

 such a garden we have 

 seen, and it is perhaps 

 the best example in Eu- 

 rope, is that at Woburn 

 Abbey. It occupies an 

 irregular triangular lawn 

 in front of the exotic 

 heathery, and in this 

 lawn the beds are laid 

 out somewhat in the 

 geometric style. " Each species or va- 

 riety is confined to separate beds, which 

 are all edged with Calluna vulgaris and 

 Erica tetralix, and so disposed that the 

 tallest-growing kinds are arranged towards 

 the centre of the parterre, while the whole 

 are so intermixed, in point of colour, as 

 to produce the most lively contrast pos- 

 sible. It hence becomes an interesting 

 spot at all seasons of the year, as there 

 are always some of the sorts expanding 

 their beautiful blossoms. During the 

 summer months, many of the duplicates 

 from the heath-house are turned out of 

 their pots and planted in this compart- 

 ment, where they generally flower, grow 

 vigorously, and form themselves into 

 handsome bushy plants." — Forbes inHor- 

 tus Woburnensis. 



Such figures as the following are ap- 

 propriate either for small flower-gardens 

 of themselves, or for detached ones in 

 grounds of great extent. 



Fig. 915 is exemplified in the flower- 

 garden of Lady Grenville at Dropmore, 



