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Fig. 48 is a circular series of eight beds 
formed on an octagonal plan, with a large 
vase for flowers in the centre, a width of four 
feet in lawn around the vase, and the beds, 
five feet in length, radiating as shown. The 
plan is suitable for an open space, to give 
interest to a window view, or to face a 
porch where the entrance-walk runs parallel 
with the house. So many different plants 
may here be used with good effect, that, 
whichever we may name, may be bettered 
by a more skillful florist. Yet we will suggest for the widest part 
of theses beds, stools of the eight finest Japan lilies, to be sur- 
rounded by fall planted bulbs that bloom in April and May, which 
can be removed by the first of June ; these to be followed by such 
plants as gladiolus and tuberoses, on the ends nearest the vase, 
and by the finest eight varieties of compact geraniums in the outer 
circles. Or the beds may be planted with an entirely fresh variety 
of flowers every year. 
Fig. 49 is a group of flower-beds suita- 
ble to place at the end of a walk or at the 
intersection of diverging walks. A rustic 
or other vase is here, also, the centre of the 
group, with four or five feet of lawn around 
it. The beds a, should be filled with 
flowers that do not exceed six or nine 
inches in height. The beds c, and are 
large enough to allow of considerable vari- 
ety in their composition. The two smaller 
ones should have no plants that grow 
higher than two feet, while in the middle of 
the bed d, and in the trefoil end, may be planted those which grow 
from three to five feet in height. 
Fig. 50 (drawn to a scale of one-twelfth of an inch to one foot) 
requires a larger space such as that made by the turn circle of a 
roadway, or a place where a walk or road describes the segment of 
a circle with an open lawn on the inside of the curve. A tree might 
Fig. 49. 
