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the like, three or four plants to the same space. With an arrangement madein 
the autumn, and a guide like the preceding, it is easy to provide plants for a la|e 
garden, as it is not necessary to provide more plants than are actually required, i d 
it is easy to see that the plants are always ready. If the arrangement is left u il 
near the planting-out time, in the spring, the chances are that you will be deficit 
in a stock of some things, and have to “ make shift ” with some inferior kinds, jjd 
“ make shifts ” in gardening are always dangerous. 
Another, and the last fault, in flower-garden arrangement, which we shall no- :e 
at this time, is that of arranging beds in pairs, when they ought to be planted^ 
fours ; thus, for example, supposing this page to be a geometrical garden wh 
corresponding beds at each corner, the common practice would be to plant two bis 
with one colour, and the other two with another : this is wrong, and it will be fold 
much more harmonious to plant all four beds with one colour, and, if you lib 
edge them with their complementary colour. 
The preceding remarks apply also to the arrangement of Rose gardens, whh 
require reforming very much, banishing the standard or tall roses, and planting e 
masses principally with dwarf kinds, which can be pegged down, so as almost;*) 
hide the ground entirely. We know nothing more interesting than beds of Bourbi, 
China, Tea, and other perpetual flowering roses, which delight one from May mil 
October, and are always gay. More attention must be devoted to these thin : 
indeed, for our own part, we should not think of planting any but perpetual roses, ja 
future ; and from small gardens the French and Hybrid China roses ought certaiy 
to be expelled. 
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Of this interesting genus, about thirty species have already been introduced, al 
many more remain to be brought into this country. They are natives of New Hollai , 
Van Diemen’s Land, and different parts of Australia, where they grow abundany 
on open sandy plains, fully exposed to the sun, but where the soil beneath is tit 
and spongy. In these situations the foliage grows healthy and strong, and f 
flowers are produced in profusion. Every species is of small stature, and althom 
the blossoms of none of them are very showy, yet all are pretty and interesting: fff 
are, for the most part, produced in racemes, but some few appear in spikes al 
corymbs. The prevailing colours are rose and pink, of various shades and degre . 
The structure of the flowers is exceedingly curious, and from this peculiars 
the genus derives its name. The stigma is concealed in a cavity at the top of t) 
column, surrounded by the anthers ; this column is much longer than the limb f 
the corolla, hangs down on one side of the flower, and is extremely irritable, f 
touched by a pin, or any other substance, on the under side, it instantly springs ) 
and flies across to the opposite side ; in a few minutes it again returns to its origii l 
