THE AMATEUR’S FLOWER GARDEN. 
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these are in bloom there will be the same harmony of arrange¬ 
ment as if the beds were the same throughout. A simple 
scheme will make this plain : suppose a set of eleven angular 
beds on a lawn as here represented, the gardener’s object may 
be to have several kinds of bulbs in bloom all at the same 
time, and that is just the very thing that cannot be accom¬ 
plished. But for months together there may be abundance 
of flowers in rich masses, without any lop-sided anomalies, as 
the planting of the beds will show :— 
Scillas and 
Daisies. 
Yellow 
Crocuses and 
Pansies. 
Scillas and 
Daisies. 
Early Tulips 
and 
Polyanthuses. 
Early Tulips 
and 
Polyanthuses. 
Mixed Hyacinths with 
Arabis and Alyssum. 
Early Tulips 
and 
Polyanthuses. 
Early Tulips 
and 
Polyanthuses. 
Scillas and 
Daisies. 
Yellow 
Crocuses and 
Pansies. 
Scillas and 
Daisies. 
It will be seen that it matters not whether the various 
plants employed bloom altogether or in succession, each 
separate class will be in bloom in its own season, and yellow 
crocus on one side will have a match in yellow crocus on the 
other, and the same with all the rest. But this simple scheme 
may be improved by using all the smaller bulbs as edgings 
to the larger beds. Suppose them all edged with snowdrops, 
then early in the year the whole scheme will be gay with 
white flowers. Next the snowdrops plant crocuses, and as 
the snowdrops go out of bloom these will succeed them ; 
then as the crocuses decline, the hyacinths and tulips, form¬ 
ing the principal masses, will come to their full splendour, 
and the season of spring flowers will be prolonged almost 
to the time for turning out summer bedders. There are 
numbers of early-flowering herbaceous plants suitable to 
plant with the bulbs to make masses of verdure all the 
