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one glance round a flower-garden reveals everything. What is 

 so much more desirable is the combining shrubs and creepers 

 with bulbs and hardy flowering or foliage plants, so that the 

 flowers may be found rather in nooks and slight seclusions than in 

 exposed masses, new objects thus indirectly meeting the eye at every 

 turn. Still farther, if something be getting out of bloom others 

 are succeeding. I am not sure whether, conducted on the lines 

 set out in this paper, winter and spring flower gardening, but the 

 spring bedding especially, may not be found more attractive than 

 any display of summer bedding, especially when seen under the 

 glare of hot sunshine, ever can be. In any case, it is garden 

 decoration of the cheapest, and may be more or less practised in 

 everybody's garden. 



List of the Most Suitable Conifers and Shrubs for 

 Winter and Spring Bedding. 



Variegated Shrubs. 



Aucuba japonica maculata — the old Aucuba of gardens. 

 Buxus argentea variegata. 



„ aurea ,, 



,, japonica aurea. 

 *Euonymus radicans. 



* „ japonica aurea variegata. 



* „ „ „ marginata. 

 ,, ,, alba ,, 



*Eurya japonica variegata. 

 *Elaeagnus pungens „ 



* ,, maculata aurea. 

 Erica vulgaris aurea. 



Hedera arborea argentea variegata. 

 ,, aurea ,, 



chrysophylla. 



* These are suitable for favourable situations only, being 

 rather tender. 



