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The large be(Js were also very gay, being filled thus :—One bed was a 
mass of double yellow Rose Tulip, with a border of the pale pink-flowered 
Silene pendula; another bed with the double white Tulip La Candeur, 
edged with mixed Anemones ; a third bed was filled with the double 
red Tulip Rex Rubrorum, bordered with white Forget-me-not, and so 
on. These large beds are 80 feet in circumference. A long winding 
ribbon was well filled in this manner;—Centre row, blue Forget-me-not; 
rows left and right, white Forget-me-not; the outside rows consisting 
of yellow Pansies. In the small flower garden, an effective border 
contained in the first row Auhrietia purpurea ; in the second, yellow 
Pansies; in the third, white Myosotis; the fourth was composed of 
dwarf Italian Wallflower, and the fifth of yellow Rose Tulips. Various 
beds were filled very effectively—in one instance with Rex Rubrorum 
Tulip, edged with blue Pansies; another with Pseony Gold Tulip, 
edged with white perennial Candytuft; a third with Eclatante Rouge 
Tulip, edged with yellow Alyssum, or Cheiranthus Marshall!; a fourth 
with double scarlet Ranunculus, bordered with yellow Pansies ; a fifth 
with white perennial Candytuft, edged with blue Pansies ; and a sixth 
contained blue Forget-me-not, margined with white Pansies : we also 
noticed the double white Saxifrage as a most useful and efficient deco¬ 
rative plant. 
This system of arrangement is adopted by Mr. Fleming on a large 
scale, and provision is of course made for it during the summer by 
providing the necessary plants in a nursery or store garden, in readiness 
for transplanting in the autumn to the flower garden, and vke versa in 
June. When the beds are on a large scale, it is not necessary in all 
cases to remove them, as the early spring-blooming plants can be so 
arranged that by cutting them in close, after blooming, and allowing 
sufficient space, the summer-flowering plants can be placed between 
them. Many of the bulbs, also, are in a dormant state during the 
summer. 
Cliveden is one of the beautiful residences belonging to His Grace 
the Duke of Sutherland; and knowing that Mr. Fleming devotes a 
large share of attention to spring-flower gardening, we paid it a visit 
during the first week in May, and found the beds and borders com¬ 
pletely filled ; and although many of the plants were common, the 
effect was novel and pleasing in the extreme, and we feel convinced 
that the system is worthy of more general adoption, and would amply 
repay the little trouble and expense attending it. 
HORTICQLTURAL SOCIETY. 
May 5.—Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt in the chair. Forty-three new 
Fellows were elected on this occasion. At this meeting some good fruit 
in the shape of Pine-apples was produced, and there were some 
remarkably fine specimens of Grapes, especially from Mr. Fleming, 
gardener to the Duke of Sutherland at Trentham. These were Black 
Hamburgh, large both in bunch and berry, and beautifully coloured. 
Good Grapes also came from Mr. Hill, Mr. Fleming, of Cliveden, Mr. 
