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THE FLORIST AND P0M0L0GIST. 
beautiful plants we might add to the pleasure-ground that would answer the 
twofold purpose, and, when we pass them, we might help ourselves to their 
delicious fruit without at all diminishing the pleasures of the garden—such as 
Mulberries, Raspberries, and Strawberries; and if rightly managed might be 
as grateful to the sight in spring, and to the smell and taste in summer. Let 
us not discard beautiful trees or shrubs merely because we know that they 
will produce fruit, and condemn them forthwith to the kitchen garden; but let 
us regard them for their beauty, and the pleasure they afford, and our pleasure 
gardens w r ill rejoice in ornaments that they have not hitherto known. 
Hazelwood , Upper Norwood. N. Cole. 
BEDDING FOR WINTER AND SPRING. 
The advantage of replanting bulbs left in the ground over the season upon 
the turned-down spit will be manifest, when it is considered that by the time 
the summer bedding is removed, they have all pushed a great quantity of long 
white roots, which can be spread out and covered over without checking the 
growth of the bulb ; whereas, if planted by the dibber, in the common way, 
there is a great difficulty in getting them down any depth. Allowing for the 
edging, where the rows of Crocuses are, a mark is made for the othep rows of 
Tulips, Narcissus, &c. The border is then covered with the surface arrange¬ 
ment, allowing a small space between the rows for the bulbs to come up; but 
they should form no part of this arrangement, except this small space left to 
prevent their heaving up the surface rows. Tulips and Narcissus are stately 
plants, and make their own display independent of the surface bloom. In this 
border there is first a broad belt of Aubrietia purpurea, then yellow Crocus, 
with good bold rows behind of Arabis variegata; second, red Daisy ; third, 
blue Ilepatica, and Scilla; fourth, Polyanthus ; fifth,dwarf yellow Wallflower; 
sixth, white Queen’s Stock; seventh, red Italian Wallflower, with a back of 
the Giant Brompton Stock. The yellow Wallflower is of our own rearing, 
and a great acquisition to spring-flowering plants. It may be termed a per¬ 
petual bloomer, as it is seldom without a bloom all the year round, easily raised 
from seed, and always, as yet, come true. 
We have now nearly finished Tulip planting, and to follow the prevailing 
summer style have divided all the beds into three colours—for example, the 
centre of tw r o is La Candeur Tulip, surface blue Myosotis, on each side a belt 
of the Creamy Silene; other two are, Rex Rubrorum Tulip, with the surface 
pink Silene pendula, with belt of Silene rubella—this is a charming dwarf 
spring plant. Again, we have Yellow Rose Tulip, yellow Alyssum, and the 
belt, white Arabis. 
In a large ribbon-border nearly ^finished, we have the first row a white 
Crocus; second, blue and white single Violets ; third, two rows red Daisy ; 
fourth, three rows pink Daisy ; fifth, four rows white Daisy ; sixth, four rows 
yellow Pansy; seventh, five rows blue Pansy; eighth, six rows purple 
Pansy ; ninth, mixed Silene ; tenth, Anemone ; eleventh, Wallflower ; twelfth, 
Queen Stock ; the last a good row of Honesty (Lunaria biennis), pegged down. 
Cliveden. (To be continued.') J. Fleming. 
BEDDING GERANIUMS. 
These are multiplying rapidly : but are they improving in the same ratio ? is the 
question with which those who have to employ them to any extent are concerned. 
I fancy it would be the safest policy to bed each supposed new kind out—not only 
