EMBELLISHMENTS. 
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Beds. 
22 and 23. Crocus vernus and biflorus. 
24. Hyacinths, double red. 
25 and 26. Tulips, double yellow. 
27. Hyacinths, double white. 
28. Muscari botryoides, (Grape Hyacinth.) 
29. Oxalis caprina, (kept in frames in mid- winter.) 
30. Scilla verna, (Spring Harebell.) 
31. Muscari racemosum, the border of Viola tricolor in sorts. 
32. Hyacinths, double white. 
33. Double rose Larkspur. 
a As a general principle for regulating the plants in this 
figure, the winter and spring flowers ought, as much as pos- 
sible, to be of sorts which admit of being in the ground all 
the year : and the summer crop should be planted at inter- 
vals between the winter plants. Or the summer crop, hav- 
ing been brought forward in pots under glass, or by nightly 
protection, may be planted out about the middle of June, 
after the winter plants in pots are removed. A number of 
hardy bulbs ought to be potted and plunged in the beds in 
the months of October and November ; and when out of 
bloom, in May or June, removed to the reserve garden and 
plunged there in order to perfect their foliage and mature 
their bulbs for the succeeding season.”* 
There cannot be a question that this method of planting 
the flower-garden in groups and masses, is productive of by 
far the most splendid effect. In England, where flower- 
gardens are carried to their greatest perfection, the preference 
in planting is given to exotics which blossom constantly 
throughout the season, and which are kept in the green- 
house during winter, and turned out in the beds in the early 
part of the season, where they flower in the greatest pro- 
fusion until frost ; as Fuchsias, Salvias, Lobelias, Scarlet 
Ency. of Gardening, 1000. 
