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the like, three or four plants to the same space. With an arrangement made in 
the autumn, and a guide like the preceding, it is easy to provide plants for a large 
garden, as it is not necessary to provide more plants than are actually required, and 
it is easy to see that the plants are always ready. If the arrangement is left until 
near the planting-out time, in the spring, the chances are that you will be deficient 
in a stock of some things, and have to " make shift " with some inferior kinds, and 
" make shifts " in gardening are always dangerous. 
Another, and the last fault, in flower-garden arrangement, which we shall notice 
at this time, is that of arranging beds in pairs, when they ought to be planted in 
fours ; thus, for example, supposing this page to be a geometrical garden with 
corresponding beds at each corner, the common practice would be to plant two beds 
with one colour, and the other two with another : this is wrong, and it will be found 
much more harmonious to plant all four beds with one colour, and, if you like, 
edge them with their complementary colour. 
The preceding remarks apply also to the arrangement of Kose gardens, which 
require reforming very much, banishing the standard or tall roses, and planting the 
masses principally with dwarf kinds, which can be pegged down, so as almost to 
hide the ground entirely. We know nothing more interesting than beds of Bourbon, 
China, Tea, and other perpetual flowering roses, which delight one from May until 
October, and are always gay. More attention must be devoted to these things: 
indeed, for our own part, we should not think of planting any but perpetual roses, in 
future ; and from small gardens the French and Hybrid China roses ought certainly 
to be expelled. 
CULTURE OF THE GENUS STYLIDIUM. 
Of this interesting genus, about thirty species have already been introduced, and 
many more remain to be brought into this country. They are natives of New Holland, 
Van Diemen's Land, and different parts of Australia, where they grow abundantly 
on open sandy plains, fully exposed to the sun, but where the soil beneath is wet 
and spongy. In these situations the foliage grows healthy and strong, and the 
flowers are produced in profusion. Every species is of small stature, and although 
the blossoms of none of them are very showy, yet all are pretty and interesting: they 
are, for the most part, produced in racemes, but some few appear in spikes and 
corymbs. The prevailing colours are rose and pink, of various shades and degrees. 
The structure of the flowers is exceedingly curious, and from this peculiarity 
the genus derives its name. The stigma is concealed in a cavity at the top of the 
column, surrounded by the anthers ; this column is much longer than the limb of 
the corolla, hangs down on one side of the flower, and is extremely irritable. If 
touched by a pin, or any other substance, on the under side, it instantly springs up 
and flies across to the opposite side ; in a few minutes it again returns to its original 
