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bushes, after the leaves fall, is a serious objection to them when 
compared with the cheerful elegance of a well-formed evergreen 
group at all seasons of the year. The other flower-beds are 
small, and of the simplest forms. Beds i, i, i, i should be filled 
in spring with bulbous flowers, and later with verbenas, portulaccas, 
Phlox dnimmondi, escholtzias, or similar low plants. Beds 2, 2 may 
have three geraniums in each, the largest variety in the middle. 
Beds 3 and 5, in the wall-corners, should have some little evergreen 
vines, say English or Irish ivies, planted in the extreme corner, 
with heliotrope and mignonette around them. Bed 4 may be 
planted as suggested in the description of Plate VIII. Beds 
6, 6, 6, 6 may be filled with four varieties of cannas of about equal 
height; 7, 7, and 9 with low bulbs in spring, and later with gladiolii 
in the centre and petunias or other flowers of similarly brilliant 
and abundant bloom, around them. Bed 8 to have a mountain-o-f- 
snow geranium, or a Wigandia caracasana in the centre, and three 
robust plants of Colleus verschafriti on the points ; 10 is a mass of 
cannas ; 11 may be a bed of hollyhocks, with a tall sort in the 
centre, and low varieties around it. We have merely suggested the 
flowers for the various beds as a starting-point for persons unfa¬ 
miliar with flowers. Most intelligent ladies, as well as gardeners, 
are more familiar with flower culture than with any other garden¬ 
ing art, and will be able to vary the beds from year to year, and to 
improve on the selections here given. They will also learn by 
experiment, better than they can be told, the best materials to 
use in embellishing with flowers and wreathing leaves, the vases 
near the entrance steps. 
Plate X. 
A Simple Plan for Planting an Interior Lot two hundred feet front 
and three hundred feet deep. 
This plan represents a large mansion on an in-lot two hundred 
feet front by three hundred feet deep. Plate XI is the same house 
and lot treated more elaborately. The same differences, carried 
out on a larger scale, may be observed between these two plans of 
