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or winter bedding, plants of a particular height or colour or foliage value, 

 are easily discovered. Methods of propagation are detailed, and the last 

 chapter, of seventy pages, is devoted to a series of practical examples of 

 geometric beds, with their appropriate plants. England 'receives but 

 scanty notice both with regard to the history of the subject and to 

 the many fine examples now found in our public parks, and it is with 

 surprise that we read that blue is the predominant colour in our bedding 

 schemes ; but as a practical French manual to the subject, from the 

 simplicity of explanation and fulness of illustration, the book is an 

 invaluable one. 



