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arrangement. No plants are admitted that are shy bloom- 
ers, or which have ugly habits of growth, meagre or starved 
ioiiage ; the aim being brilliant effect, rather than the 
display of a great variety of curious or rare plants. To 
bring this about more perfectly, and to have an elegant 
show during the whole season of growth, hyacinths and 
other fine bulbous roots occupy a certain portion of the 
oeds, the intervals being filled with handsome herbaceous 
plants, permanently planted, or with flowering annuals and 
green-house plants renewed every season. 
To illustrate the mode of arranging the beds and disposing 
the plants in an English garden, we copy the plan and 
description of the elegant flower-garden, on the lawn at 
Dropmore , the beds being cut out of the smooth turf. 
figure, the winter and spring flowers ought, as much as 
possible, to be of sorts which admit of being in the ground 
all the year : and the summer crop should be planted at 
intervals between the winter plants. Or the summer crop, 
having 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 
