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c, White-flowering herbaceous plants and white-flowering bulbs; the 
border of white crocuses. 
d, Blue-flowering herbaceous plants and blue-flowering bulbs; bordered 
by blue or purple crocuses. 
6, Yellow-flowering herbaceous plants and yellow-flowering bulbs; 
bordered with yellow crocuses. 
/, Variegated horse-shoe geraniums, alternating with mixed hyacinths, 
and bordered with mixed crocuses. 
g. Variegated ivy-leaved geraniums, alternating with mixed tulips, 
and bordered with mixed crocuses. 
A, Fuchsia glohosa , or any favourite tender annual or greenhouse 
plant, alternating with mixed Narcissi, bordered with mixed dog¬ 
tooth violets. 
i. Heliotropes , or other favourite tender annual or greenhouse plants, 
alternating with mixed Iris Xiphium , and bordered with mixed Scilla 
verna and bifblia; the latter in its blue, wdiite, and red varieties. 
The beds are raised a little in the centre, as is shown by the sec¬ 
tion 7, in jig. 47. 
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WORKING PLAN OF ONE OF THE BEDS, b. 
The details of one bed, that for the red-flowered plants, marked b in 
the general plan, are given (jig. 48) as a specimen of the manner in which 
the beds are planted with herbaceous plants, alternating with bulbs, 
and bordered with bulbs. 
PERENNIAL AND ANNUAL PLANTS WITH RED OR PURPLISH FLOWERS ; EQUAL 
NUMBERS FLOWERING IN APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, AND SEPTEMBER, 
TILL DESTROYED BY FROST. 
§ i. OUTSIDE ROW ; HEIGHT OF THE PLANTS FROM SIX INCHES TO EIGHTEEN INCHES. 
1. Phlox subulata, April. 
2. Lychnis Iceta , May. 
3. Antirrhinum, majus (the snap-dragon), 
June. 
4. Phlox amcena , May to July. 
5. Pentstemon angustifolius , August. 
6. A'ster salicifblius (red Michaelmas 
daisy), September and October. 
7. Verbena Tweediana , pegged down, 
April. 
8. Aquilegia canadensis (Canadian 
Columbine), May. 
9. Betonica grandiflbra, June. 
10. Chelone barbata , July. 
11. Epilbbium angustissimum (French 
willow herb), August. 
