THE AMATEUR’S FLOWER GARDEN. 
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nium, such as Pink Muslin, or Rosa Queen; 10 , 10 , 
Geranium Avalanche, which has white leaves and white 
flowers. The second example of the planting shall he a 
harmony in blue. No. 1, Petunia Purple Redder, or Spitfire, 
or Verbena Celestial Blue, edged with Cerastium ; 2, 2, Dwarf 
Scarlet geranium, edged with blue Lobelia; 3, 3, a tricolor 
geranium, such as Sunset, or Louisa Smith, edged with blue 
Lobelia; 4 and 5, in centre of each division of these compart¬ 
ments, about where the figures are placed, a circular dot of 
a brilliant scarlet geranium, such as Thomas Moore, or Lion 
Heart, the rest of the block filled in with blue Lobelia, 
finished with edging of Cerastium; 6, 6,6, 6, Geranium Flower 
of Spring, and blue Lobelia, plant and plant, edged with Ivy¬ 
leaved Geranium Elegant; 7, 7, a dwarf scarlet geranium, 
edged with blue Lobelia; 8, 8, Lobelia Indigo Blue, edged with 
Geranium Flower of Spring; 9, 9, a lilac or rose-pink gera¬ 
nium, such as Lilac Banner, Feast of Roses, or Amy Hogg; 
10, 10, a dwarf salmon or orange-scarlet geranium, such as 
H. W. Longfellow, or Harkaway, edged with Cerastium. 
The next example, p. 22, makes a poor appearance on paper, 
but in the fine large old-fashioned garden, where it embellishes 
the forefront of a lawn, it is a most effective arrangement, 
the beds being cut out on the grass, and all of them furnished 
to produce decisive effects. When the drawing was made, 
the beds were filled as follows : A, White Verbena, edged with 
Purple Verbena; B, Mangles’ Variegated Geranium, edged 
with blue Lobelia; c, C, Lion Heart Geranium, edged with 
Flower of the Day ; D, Crimson Unique Geranium, edged with 
Flower of Spring; E, e, Geranium Tristram Shandy ; F, F, 
blue Lobelia, and Cerastium tomentosum, plant and plant, 
edged with Cerastium ; g, Geranium Duchess ; H, Geranium 
Louisa Smith ; I, i, vases filled with Ivy-leaved geraniums, 
Gazanias, and Convolvulus Mauritanicus. 
In further illustration of the principles of geometric 
colouring, a selection has been made of a series of schemes 
in the Liverpool Botanic Gardens, where Mr. Tyerman, the 
able curator, has developed this system of embellishment with 
peculiar completeness and success. The first of the series 
will indicate the value of geraniums, or, as they should be 
termed more correctly, zonate pelargoniums; for the whole 
furniture consisted, in the season when these notes were made, 
of varieties of this class of bedding plants, with the exception, 
as will be seen, of a few trivial dots of calceolaria and verbena. 
