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gardener's time and glass for their annual multiplication. I 

 speak from personal, shameful experience, because — 



In my sallet clays, 

 When I was green in judgment, 



when I would hot heed the caution 



0 formose puer, nimium ne crede colori, 



I offered sacrifice to this gaudy idol, and, like a daddy-long- 

 legs hovering round a lamp on a summer's night, was scorched 

 by the dazzling flame. 



Nevertheless, when there is space, and taste, and money, these 

 bedders-out are introduced on those plateaux and terraces of 

 which I spoke in front of palaces, and castles, and great 

 mansions with admirable effect, and the graceful combinations 

 which we see in the parks of London never fail to refresh and 

 charm. They may also be effectively arranged here and there 

 on the borders of shrubberies ; but the huge spaces which they 

 sometimes occupy in kitchen gardens, with long lines of brilliant 

 colours, suggesting such a ribbon as a lady in Brobdingnag might 

 have selected for a sash, would be far more satisfactorily occupied 

 by a border of herbaceous plants. They are too gorgeous these 

 dazzling displays, and I recall the smiling assent of a brother 

 gardener when, after we had been more than satisfied with one 

 of these splendid scenes, I suggested that " we should go among 

 the vegetables and cool our eyes on the lettuce." 



Were I asked to name the best of these flowers for beds, I 

 should select, first of all, the Begonia in varied colours, the 

 Clematis, light and dark, Cannas and Lilies intermixed. 



As to the arrangement of a garden, Pope has given us all the 

 information we require in two simple lines : 



He wins all points, who pleasingly confounds, 

 Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds, 



instead of exhibiting all he has at once, as is the case with 

 the owner of a small garden, who makes a large display of 

 bedding-out, or where there is a straight gravel walk on the four 

 sides of the grass plot with a narrow border on three sides 

 between walk and wall, and the house on the other. 



The garden next your admiration calls — 

 On every side you look behold the wall ! 



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