LAWNS AND THEIR EMBELLISHMENT 
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Raised Scroll Bedding 
To the left we show a fine example of this 
improved style of bedding. When well designed 
and kept in good form this raised scroll effect is 
unusually pleasing; the bed here shown is com- 
posed of a groundwork of yellow -leaved Alternan- 
thera, with scroll and edging of the red -leaved 
variety allowed to grow taller, and then rounded to 
form with shears. The raised center of the bed is 
Echeveria secunda glauca. A good center plant would 
be Agave, Pan- 
danus Veitchii, 
Dracaena indi- 
visa or Grevil- 
lea r o b u s t a . 
The four corner 
plants are Eche- 
veria metallica. 
A Basket Flower Bed 
This unique adornment, illustrated on the right, is suitable 
for places where the "natural” style of planting is followed, 
and where formal vases, etc., would be out of place. This 
basket was made for the purpose, of rattan, and measured 
about 2f^x4 feet across the top; it is open at the bottom, 
excepting for a strip of wood across each way to hold the 
basket in shape, with similar strips across near the top. The 
handle is 2 feet high. This flower basket attracted much 
attention on account of its beauty and novelty. Plants of 
too rampant growth were avoided, for fear they would over- 
grow the basket to the hiding of its identity. The plants 
used were Manettia for the handle, Solanum Jasminoides and 
double Nasturtium for droopers, and a miscellaneous variety 
of plants for the center. 
