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PLAN OF A FLOWER-GARDEN. 
sandy-peat, one ditto ashes of burnt vegetables, and a small portion 
of thoroughly rotted dung.—The plants thus potted, are then arran¬ 
ged in a cold frame, and plunged to the rim in coal ashes; in mild 
weather, the glass is taken off; but by night, protection from frost, 
and by day, from cold and rough wind is indispensable. On the 
flowers appearing, the plants are removed to the green-house, and 
are placed as near the windows as possible, to have the advantage 
both of sun and air; they are abundantly watered with soft water, 
of the same temperature as the atmosphere they are growing in, the 
leaves also are occasionally well sprinkled; but this operation is gone 
through in the morning, and the windows of the house are immedi¬ 
ately opened, otherwise the leaves would damp off, and the root de¬ 
cay. The pots are well drained with pieces of brick. 
In recommending this treatment in the culture of the Persian 
Cyclamen, I can speak with confidence, having among other good 
specimens, one plant on which a few days since, I numbered eighty- 
seven flowers. 
The dividing the roots to increase the stock of plants is bad, the 
roots are a long time recovering the wound then given, and do not 
afterwards flower so strong. Young plants are obtained very easily 
jrom seed. 
T. B. C 
ARTICLE XII.—PLAN OF A FLOWER-GARDEN. 
BY MR. SMITH. 
Gardener at Snelston Hall, Derbyshire. 
Among your numerous readers, some would, no doubt, be interested 
by your giving (in every third or fourth number) a Plan of a Flower 
or Pleasure-Garden, leaving the manner of planting and furnishing 
to the proprietor, or whom he employs. Thus, by way of seconding 
Mr. Brown’s motion, Yol. 2, page 16, I herewith send you the sketch 
of a piece of ground I laid out in the shrubbery, at Snelston, (Fig. ' 
27,) This would agree with any modern building, but there is some¬ 
thing of antiquity about it which corresponds better with a gothic 
structure, and when well enriched with flowers and other curiosities, 
it renders the parterre exceedingly pleasant to the sight; the one 
here shewn has gravel walks, and box edgings, and would answer 
well if the beds were planted in masses, but is stocked chiefly with 
about six hundred species of herbaceous plants. By this mixture of 
planting, without further trouble, there is a successional show of 
