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THE AMATEUR’S FLOWER GARDEN. 
fashions, will be advanced a stage at least in its nomen¬ 
clature. This is a subarctic climate certainly, but one of the 
most wonderful of its class on the face of the earth, if we 
may judge it by the thermometer on the one hand, and by 
the wonderful and vast variety of vegetable beauty which it 
is found possible to display in our gardens, brief as may be 
the period during which many of them continue in a pre¬ 
sentable and effective condition. 
In the construction of a subtropical garden it is desirable 
to select a sheltered spot lying open to the south, and to 
separate it by suitable planting from other parts of the 
grounds to constitute a separate feature. In design it may be 
either extremely simple or highly fantastic, provided that the 
plants are so placed that they will be likely to thrive and so be 
worth seeing, and also that the design is favourable to the dis- 
