16 ON LAYING OUT A FLOWER-GARDEN. 
should be studied, the whole showing an evident and well- 
defined connection. These erections generally are stiff, arti- 
ficial, disjointed masses, and often decorated with plants 
having no affinity to their arid location. The undertaking, 
when well completed, will present a field of varied and in- 
teresting study, and more than compensate for the labour 
and expense bestowed upon it. If it is desired that the flower- 
garden should be a botanical study, there should be some 
botanical arrangement adopted. 
The Linneean system is the most easily acquired. A 
small compartment, laid out in beds, might contain plants of 
all the twenty-four classes, and a few of all the hardy orders, 
which do not exceed one hundred. Or, to have their natu- 
ral characters more assimilated, the Jussieuean system could 
be carried into effect by laying down a grass-plat to any 
extent above one quarter of an acre, and cut therein small 
figures to contain the natural families, which, of hardy plants, 
we do not suppose would exceed one hundred and fifty. The 
difficulties of this arrangement are, that many of the cha- 
racters are imperfectly known, even to the most scientific. 
(See Professor Lindley's Introduction to Botany.) All the 
large divisions should be intersected by small alleys, or paths, 
about one and a half or two feet wide. When there is not 
a green-house attached to the flower-garden, there should be, 
at least, a few sashes of framing, or a forcing pit, to bring 
forward early annuals, &c, for early blooming. These 
should be situate in some spot detached from the garden by 
a fence of Roses, trained to trellises. Chinese Arbor vitae, 
Privet, or even Madura, make excellent fences, and, when 
properly trimmed, are very ornamental : they require to be 
neatly and carefully clipped with shears every September. 
In the Southern States, Noisette, Bourbon, and China Boses, 
with a profusion of Swcetbriar, would make the most beauti- 
ful of all fences, and could be very easily obtained : a fence 
three hundred feet long would only cost about one hundred 
and twenty dollars. Frames for forcing should be made of 
plank two inches thick, and well put together ; the sash 
should be from five to seven feet long, and from three to four 
feet wide, and filled with six by eight glass. In the framing- 
ground should be kept the various soils required for plants, 
and also various characters of manure at all times ready 
for use, the whole in regular heaps, and kept free from 
