252 FLOWERS AND BEDDING PLANTS 
Fig. 46. 
Fig. 46 is a group of five small 
beds on the outside of a circular 
walk. No. I may be filled with 
four canna plants of sorts from 
three to four feet high ; the beds 
2, and 2, one with Lady Pollock 
geranium, and the other with 
some one gorgeous-leaved plant of about the same size ; and beds 
3 and 4 with brilliant trailing flowers. 
Fig. 47 is a group of beds requiring more space, and adapted 
to the inner side of a curved walk where there is considerable 
depth of lawn behind. V — is a large low vase. The circular ex- 
tremities a, a, a, may be filled with compact specimens of curious- 
leaved plants like the Lady Pollock, or mountain-of-snow gera- 
nium, Colletts verschafelti^ iresette herbstii, etc., etc. ; or they may 
be more permanently occupied by such very dwarf evergreens as 
the Abies nigra piimula^ the garden boxwood, or the Androtneda 
Jloribunda. The narrow parts of the two beds next to the walks 
should be occupied by some shrubby little annuals or perennials 
which do not exceed nine inches in height, and the balance of the 
beds filled with plants increasing in size towards the vase, none of 
which, however, should be higher than the top of the vase. The 
rear bed should be filled in a similar manner, and being further 
from the walk, may be occupied with showy plants of coarser 
foliage than the front beds. By an error in the drawing the circu- 
lar front of the back bed is made further from the vase than the 
side ones. It should be made larger in the direction of the vase, 
and have its corners truncated like the others. 
Fig. 47. 
