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in the green-house, but flourish in the open ground during the 
summer months with great luxuriance, and are among the brightest 
and most interesting features of suburban lawns. We have named 
but few out of many of the plants suitable for forming showy 
masses or conspicuous single specimens. Descriptive lists of all 
which are valuable may be found in the illustrated catalogues of 
the great florists and nurserymen. 
Fig. 45, drawn to the scale of one-sixteenth of an inch to one 
foot, is a design for a group of small beds to border a straight short 
walk on each side, and opposite each other. A low broad 
vase for flowers occupies the centre; the beds 2, 2, to be 
filled with brilliant bedding bulbs for a spring bloom, and 
such plants as verbenas, phlox drummondii, and portulaccas for 
the summer and autumn bloom. The larger beds 3 and 4 
(which would be better if finished with a small circle at their 
points), will have a good effect filled first with bedding-bulbs 
like the former, and afterwards with a variety of geraniums 
diminishing in size towards the point of the bed ; or roots of the 
great Japan lily, Lillium auraticnty may be planted in the widest 
part of the beds to show their regal flowers above the masses of 
the geraniums. If such a variety of green-house flowers is greater 
than the planter wishes to procure, these larger beds, two on each 
side of the walk, may be filled very showily with petunias in one, 
dwarf perennial poppies in another, dwarf salvias in another, and 
coxcombs or pinks in another. The vase, if a broad one, may 
have a plant of Japanese striped maize for its centre, two colleus 
verschafelti^ and two mountain-of-snow geraniums alternated 
around it, and around the edge of the vase the vinca e/ega/ttissima, 
the lobelia erinus paxtoni^ the tropceoliiim^ or some half a dozen 
other drooping plants of brilliant foliage and blossoms which a 
florist may name. 
Fig. 45. 
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