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same remark will apply to the beds on walks 8 and ii. Walks 7 
and 10 have larger beds suitable for filling with plants of different 
colors and heights. The former is intended to be bordered, 
between the beds, with square boxes filled with plants from the 
conservatory, and back of them, in the circles, clipped dwarf ever- 
greens ; the latter (10) is to have the small circles next the walk 
occupied by a succession of pot-plants in bloom, set in larger pots 
buried in the grass to receive them, so that the former can be 
taken up and put one side when the grass is to be cut. 
Flower-beds which are not more than two feet in width, and on 
the borders of walks, should have no plants in them more than 
eighteen inches high, including the height of the flower-stalks, and 
plants from six to fifteen inches in height have the best effect. In 
wider beds, by placing the low growing sorts in front, or on the 
outside edges of the beds, the higher show to good advantage 
behind them. 
In sowing flower-seeds, which are intended to cover a bed, 
put them in drills across the bed so that a hoe may be used be- 
tween the plants when they appear. 
To make a fine display throughout the season, in beds for low 
flowers, it is necessary to have at least two sets or crops of plants ; 
one from bulbs, such as snow-drops, crocuses, jonquils, hyacinths, 
and tulips, all of which may be planted in October, to bloom the 
following spring; while the bedding-plants for the later bloom, 
such as verbenas, portulaccas, phlox drummondii, etc., etc., are 
being started. The bulbs of the former should remain in the 
ground till June and July to ripen, but the summer blooming plants 
can be planted between the bulbs, so that the latter can be re- 
moved without disarranging the former. Persons having good hot- 
bed frames, or a green-house to draw from, may make more 
brilliant beds by more frequent changes, but two crops, if well 
managed, will be quite satisfactory. 
Few persons are aware of the grand displays that may be made 
in a single season by the use of those annuals, perennials, and 
bedding-plants which grow quickly to great size. Proprietors com- 
mencing with bare grounds can make them very effective tempo- 
rary substitutes for shrubbery. Many species, especially those 
