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THE AMATEUR’S FLOWER GARDEN. 
grandest terrace garden, or the quite humble and unpretending 
grass plot in a villa garden. It may be likened, in a general 
way, to a hearthrug or Turkey carpet pattern, though of course 
it must be less complicated, and the materials employed being 
chiefly leaf colours, blend in the same soft, warm manner, 
with more thorough distinctness in the several blocks of 
colour, because there are no green leaves to interfere with the 
unity of each. The most} useful plants for this work are 
coleus, alternantheras, the “ golden feather,” pyrethrum, cen- 
taureas, iresines, perillas, amaranthus melancholicus, and a 
few of the more distinct echeverias and sempervivums. It is 
the latest novelty in flower garden embellishment, but is des¬ 
tined, we cannot doubt, to become extremely popular because 
of its richness; the comparative ease and certainty with which 
satisfactory results may be obtained; the long continuance, 
without change, of the colouring produced in the first instance; 
and the oneness of colour in each separate line or block, the 
whole scheme improving as the season advances, without the 
possibility of the occurrence of those blanks we are accus¬ 
tomed to in the case of flowering plants, which are usually 
without flowers when planted, and are apt to go out of flower 
for a week or two in the very height of the season. 
