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THE FLOEAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
good time to plant biennials. These should be sown in July, in a 
bed apart from anything else, and about the month of October they 
will be in a condition to plant out in the place of annuals, which 
will then have passed tbeir prime, and soon will be over. Hardy 
biennials, if not drawn up by being allowed to grow too thick, will 
give the garden a fresh and evergreen appearance during the winter, 
and will put forth their handsome flowers the following summer. 
Many of them are highly ornamental. The following are most 
usually grown : — Canterbury Bells, blue and white ; French Honey- 
suckle, crimson ; Indian Pinks, various colours ; Imperial Stocks, 
various; Sweet William, various; Scabious, various; Wallflowers, 
various. It is far from advisable to have more than two or three 
sorts in one season. If each plant has plenty of room, they will look 
well and do well, but the sight of a crowd of miserable, half-starved 
plants, huddled together in a little garden, although common, has a 
discreditable and ungardenly appearance. We should observe here 
that such names as we have inserted apply to such things as are 
easily and cheaply procured, which are Usually grown, and which 
are admitted to be highly ornamental ; yet we have named few 
indeed, compared to what might be named; nor would we advise 
any one to confine themselves to such lists, nor, indeed, to any lists; 
such flowers as one might reject, another might regard with particular 
favour ; and while one desires only such flowers as are usually 
cultivated, another may be highly interested in the common wild 
flowers of the meadow or the hedgerow, and each may rank high in 
display in both taste and judgment. 
The true merit is seen in the effect, and effect is produced by 
skill and industry, therefore let the lords-and-ladies from the woods 
and the cowslip from the meadow be transferred to the little garden, 
and let skill and judgment be employed in the planting and manage- 
ment, and we guarantee that it shall he in keeping with the true prin- 
ciples of horticulture. As we before observed, the various modes of 
planting and arranging the shrubs or plants in a garden, and the 
various species of plants with which it may be furnished, are won- 
derfully numerous, so that laying down any cut-and-dry set of rules 
to be observed in arranging or furnishing a garden would be absurd ; 
yet it is well to know what particular plants are suitable to parti- 
cular situations. All bright and free-blooming plants do best in 
sunny situations, and all plants valued for the beauty of their foliage 
should be placed in shady situations ; of the latter, ferns are con- 
spicuous, but more of them anon. There are some few hardy plants 
which are remarkable for fine foliage or habit, such as Farfugium 
grande, Arum maculatum, Pulmonarias, etc. ; these, with ferns, 
should invariably be placed in shady situations, since the direct rays 
of a burning sun are likely to disfigure them, which in this instance 
is a permanent injury, or at least one that will last till the following 
season. This does not apply so strictly to flowering plants, many 
kinds of which will bloom as well in the shade as in the sunshine, 
and vice versa. Many little gardens may be so situated that the 
direct rays of the midday sun shine full upon them. In this case, 
if the soil is of a cool, retentive nature, there need be no fear of 
