THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ OCTOUBR, 
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illustrations, borrowed from tire Gardeners Chroriicle, which will serve to make 
the manner of planting intelligible. 
The principal carpet-bedding at Battersea during the past summer consisted 
of two parallelogram and two circular beds, and the picture they presented on 
the fresh green turf was most exquisite. Of the two larger beds, not having 
illustrations to make a description intelligible, we shall only observe that they 
were perhaps the most effective, on account of the greater scope of the design. 
The planting was done with very much the same materials as the circles, and 
the whole was kept dwarf and close on the same plan. The circles were planted 
with the following subjects,—so closely, be it understood, that the surface was 
entirely covered by the plants, leaving no raw earth visible between them :— 
Fig 1.—The central star (1) was composed of the yellow-leaved P 3 u’ethrum 
Golden Feather ; this was surrounded by a larger star (2) of the pale rosy-tinted 
Alternanthera amoena ; next came a narrow line (3) of the grey-leaved Santo- 
lina incana ; then a broader band and enclosing circle (4) of the buff orange-tinted 
Alternanthera paronychioides ; then enclosed triangular beds of the bright orange- 
red Alternanthera magnifica ; and finally, three boundary circles—yellow Pyreth- 
rum Golden Feather (6), the rosy Alternanthera amoena (7), and the grey, rosulate- 
leaved Echeveria secunda glauca (8). These combinations were all admirable. 
Fig 2,—Here the central star (1) was of the grey-leaved Santolina lavandu- 
laefolia; next the deep orange-red Alternanthera magnifica (2) ; then Pyrethrum 
Golden Feather (3) ; a series of trapezoids of Alternanthera amoena (4) ; the 
