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green-house or frame, by continually shifting 
them into larger pots, or frequently taking 
off the points of their shoots; and when 
planted out, they should be at least a foot or 
eighteen inches asunder, increasing the dis¬ 
tance, if the plants are very large. The 
kind should be the Frogmore or Dropmore 
varieties; and the plants should be well 
watered, and frequently pruned wherever 
they throw up long shoots. Other plants 
should be treated in a similar manner; and 
great care should be taken to keep all the 
plants in the beds which are to combine to 
form a figure, of the same height, and equally 
covered with flowers. The centre bed alone 
may have taller plants. Where the walks 
are of gravel, a greater proportion of leaves 
may be allowed to the flowers; but a geome¬ 
trical flower-garden never looks half so well 
on gravel as on grass. 
The walks of a geometrical flower-garden, 
if of grass, may be laid down with turf, or 
sown with grass seeds; and in either case 
they should never be pared (as that would 
enlarge the beds, and destroy their propor¬ 
tion to the walks), unless some part should 
