PLAN OF A FLOWER GARDEN. 
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provided the glass be covered with matting, sufficient to prevent the 
frost entering; frames will be required to raise the tender annuals in 
the spring. Such a plan would look best, with gravel walks and box 
edgings in front of a conservatory, green-house, or dwelling-house. 
In planting the beds much depends on the taste of the proprietor, 
with regard to his favourite flowers, yet I conceive that if planted 
in the following manner they would give general satisfaction. 
Supposing the ground work finished according to the annexed plan, 
the scale of which must be adapted to the quantity of ground oc¬ 
cupied. 
Plants occupying the beds in spring. —1 Hyacinths of sorts; 2 
Tulips of sorts; 3 Narcissus of sorts ; 4 Viola of sorts, standard rose ; 
5 Crocuses of sorts; 6 Viola of sorts; 7 Herbaceous plants and roses ; 
8 Hyacinths of sorts ; 9 Ranunculus of sorts ; 10 Anemone of sorts; 
11 Mathiola annua, scarlet and purple, turned out of pots; 12 
Herbaceous and Annuals; 13 Mathiola annua, scarlet and purple, 
turned out of pots; 14 Viola of sorts, standard rose in centre; 15 
CEnothera macrocarpa; 16 Ranunculus, bordered with snowdrops; 
17 Tulips bordered with snowdrops; 18 Mathola annua, scarlet and 
purple, turned out of pots. 
* Plants , in summer and autumn. —1 Choice Dahlias of sorts; 
2 do. do; 3 do. do; 4 Verbena Melindris, standard rose; 5 Calcel- 
laria of sorts; 6 Fuschia gracilis and mycrophylla ; 7 Herbaceous 
plants and roses ; 8 Heliotropium peruvianum and scarlet Pelarg- 
niums; 9 Salvia fulgens and splendens; 10 Salvia fulgens and involu- 
crata; 11 Lobelia erinus and albus, standard rose; 12 Herbaceous 
and annuals ; 13 Mathiola annua, sown in spring; 14 Viola of sorts, 
standard rose in centre; 15 CEnothera macrocarpa; 16 Campanula 
pyramidalis and Lobelia effulgens mixed ; 17 Campanula persifolia 
and Lobelia splendens; 18 Mathiola annua, scarlet and purple, sown 
in spring. 
James Brown, jun, 
Stowe Gardens, Nov. 9th, 1832. 
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