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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
[Fig. 77. English Flower-Garden.] 
Geraniums, etc., etc.* This mode can be adopted here where 
a small green-house or frame is kept. In the absence of 
these, nearly the same effect may be produced by choosing 
the most showy herbaceous plants, perennial and biennial, 
* In many English residences, the flower-garden is maintained in never-fading 
brilliancy by almost daily supplies from what is termed the reserve garden. This 
is a small garden out of sight, in which a great number of duplicates of the 
species in the flower-garden are grown in pots plunged in beds. As soon as a 
vacuum is made in the flower-garden by the fading of any flowers, the same are 
immediately removed and their places supplied by fresh plants just ready to 
bloom, from the pots in the reserve garden. This, which is the ultimatum of 
refinement in flower-gardening, has never, to our knowledge, been attempted in 
this country. 
