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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 pre- 
ference 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 profusion until frost ; as Fuchsias, Salvias, 
* Ency. of Gardening, 1000. 
