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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
have been properly managed, most of these will shew 
female blossoms as soon as they are a few inches 
in length. As, however, our paper must draw to a 
close, we must defer further remarks on the subsequent 
culture for another week or two, when we shall be 
soon enough for that part of the business. In the 
mean time, let the linings be turned about once a 
week or ten days, and as often topped up as necessary ; 
[March 21. 
remembering to keep up 70° by day, and 65° by 
night, allowing an afternoon advance of 10° when 
sunny. If the bottom-heat gets beyond 80°, let water 
be liberally applied between the hillocks, taking care 
to have all fiery heat well subdued by the soiling 
period. We think that no sort will suit the amateur 
better than the Beechwood green-flesh. 
R. Errixgton. 
THE FLOWER-GARDEN. 
A, U, C, L>, E, F, G, II, are Flower Beds. W, the Walks. 
I lower Beds. —One of our subscribers (X. Y. Z.) 
has sent the above plan of a very beautiful llower- 
garden on a terrace. The figure or shape of this 
garden is a regular square ; two main walks through 
this square cross each other, and divide the ground 
into four squares; each of these are again divided 
from the corners to the centre of the garden, thus 
forming the four squares into eight triangles. In 
the centre of the garden is a fountain, with a circular 
broad walk all round it, into which the other walks 
terminate, so that either of the eight walks lead you 
up straight to the fountain between two triangles; 
the sharp points of the angles being cut off next the 
fountain to make room for the circular walk round 
it. There are four flower-beds in each of the eight 
triangles into which the garden is divided, or 32 
beds in the wholo; the four beds in each division 
aic of different shapes, but these four shapes are 
K, the Terrace Walls. L, the side next the Drawing Room. 
I preserved in the divisions all round, thus giving a 
I uniformity to the whole which must be very pleasing 
| on looking at the garden from the drawing-room 
windows, which are opposite the centre of the garden. 
There are only two ways of making flower-beds 
inside a triangle, or, indeed, inside a regular figure 
of any shape—a right and a wrong way. When you 
make a bed or set of beds in an open piece of ground 
where the boundary is not apparent or fixed by 
straight or curved lines—as those of a walk, wall, or 
the dry borders of an adjoining shrubbery—the beds 
may be made of any shape selected; and although 
you may discover, when you come to plant such 
beds, that the plan of them is radically bad, and 
altogether unfit to form a proper or pleasing arrange¬ 
ment of colours out of them, still, as far as their 
shapes are concerned, no fault can be found in them. 
Not so, however, when you come to cut out beds 
