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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
FOLIAGE AND FLOWER BED, PUBLIC PARK, LAHR, BAVARIA. 
A FOLIAGE AND FLOWER BED. 
The engravings herewith given illustrate a 
formally designed flower and foliage bed, which 
forms one of the gardening features of the public 
park at Lahr, Bavaria, and which is reproduced 
from Mo ller' s Deutsche Gartner-Zeitung . 
While the advocates of landscape work, pure 
and simple, discourage the formal flower bed, and 
especially when it assumes the grotesque, as it so 
frequently does in the effort to tickle the popular 
taste, the picture above inclines one to respect the 
arrangement, seeing that the background affords 
such a beautiful setting for the bed. The combina- 
tion and arrangement in this case makes a pleasing 
picture. 
By reference to the diagram plan more details 
of the design may be understood, as well as the fill- 
ing in material. A close inspection will also reveal 
designating Roman numerals, which in connection 
with the following, will complete the description: 
I. The center plant is a large Chamaerops hu- 
milis palm, surrounded by Phormium Veitchi and 
Salvia patens, with Lobelia fulgens Queen Vic- 
toria, on the outside of center. 
II. Ageratum, Johanna Pfitzer. 
III. Zonale Geranium, Mme. Salleroi. 
IV. Alternanthera Amabilis. 
V. Gnophalium lanatum. 
VI. Begonia semperflorens, Perle von Stutt- 
gart. 
VII. In the center of the smaller circle is a 
Dracena lineata, surrounded alternately in each 
circle by Coleus Hero and Acalypha Hamiltoniana, 
the outer band being composed of Santolina To- 
mentosa. 
VIII. Alternanthera paronychioides aurea nana. 
IX. Alternanthera versicolor. 
The diameter of the bed is about twenty-six 
feet, and the whole bed is bordered with a band 
of Echeveria glauca, 
