chap, viii.] THE FLOWER-GARDEN. 247 
artificial mode of arrangement should be 
adopted; and wherever it is adopted, the 
beds should be planted so as to form masses 
of different-coloured flowers. Where., how¬ 
ever, the garden is very small, and no part 
of it can be set entirely apart for flowers, no 
attempt should be made to produce masses 
of colour in regular forms; but the plants 
should be arranged along the borders singly, 
or in patches, as may be best adapted to 
display the individual beauties of each. In 
some cases, flowers may be planted in bor¬ 
ders, so as to form a miniature representa¬ 
tion of the natural system: as, for instance, 
first there may be planted anemones and 
ranunculuses, interspersed with patches of 
Flos Adonis, larkspurs, &c. to come into flower 
when the anemones and ranunculuses have 
done flowering; next should be some pop¬ 
pies and fumitories; and next, stocks and 
wall-flowers. In this manner, the beds might 
be arranged, by mixing perennials and an¬ 
nuals, so as to form an ornamental botanic 
garden during the whole of the flowering 
season; and the flower-garden would thus 
become not merely a source of elegant 
