THE FLOUER GARDEN. 



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altheas of various sorts, and as many others as they can with 

 any propriety unite. By these mixtures, they increase con- 

 siderably the variety and beauty of their compositions. In 

 their large plantations, the flowers generally grow in the na- 

 tural ground ; but in flower gardens, and all other parts that 

 are highly kept, they are in pots buried in the ground, which, 

 as fast as the bloom goes off, are removed, and others are 

 brought to supply their places ; so that there is a constant 

 succession for almost every month in the year, and the flowers 

 are never seen but in the height of their beauty. 



Something of the same kind is practised in France during 

 the sunnner, and some few attempts have been made in this 

 country to effect the same purpose. With some conspicuous 

 families of flower-garden plants, it ought to be more attended 

 to; such, for instance, as Da/ilia^ C/irt/sani/iimum, Lobetia, 

 Pelargonium, Helianthus, Aster, Heliotropiuin, Salvia Splen- 

 dens, Senecio elegans, var, plerio rubra, and var. pleno alba, 

 and many others ; which, if grown in large pots, and brought 

 into the flower garden when coming into flower, in place of 

 others which may be on the decline, would keep it always 

 gay, without being, as it were, encumbered with the plants 

 while in a state of growth or decay. 



Upon a small scale, much might be done in this manner 

 with good effect ; but upon a scale of such magnitude as we 

 find many of our English flower gardens, it would be next to 

 impossible to produce any good effect in them. 



The Mixed Flower Garden, of which the accompanying 

 sketch may be considered an example, is that generally 

 aimed at by gardeners, and consequently that which is most 

 commonly met with. There plants, shrubs, trees of all de- 

 nominations, are admitted too often in heterogeneous masses, 

 without the least attention being paid to their distribution as 

 far as regards the heights which they bear to one another ; 

 their colors, time of flowering, or the effects that they ulti- 

 mately or immediately have in landscape. Many err in plant- 

 ing this sort of garden, by introducing by far too many species, 

 and those often are ill selected. To produce a brilliant and 

 constant bloom of flower, is the object of this garden, and 

 that can be effected by a limited number of species, if properly 



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