August 11. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
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AUGUST 11-17, 1853. 
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Black V.; limes. 
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Clouded Yellow; meadows. 
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Brown Hair-Streak; birches. 
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12 Sunday after Trinity. 
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Lunar-spotted Pinion. 
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Bullrush; near bullrushes. 
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Duchess of Kent born, 1786 . 
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Meteorology of the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations 
during the last twenty-six years, the average highest and lowest tem¬ 
peratures of these days are 73.5° and 51.6° respectively. The greatest 
heat 91°, occurred on the 17th in 1842 ; and the lowest cold, 32°, on the 
13th in 1839, During the period 104 days were fine, and on 78 rain 
fell. 
FLOWER-GARDEN PLAN.—No. 8. 
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1. Fancy Geranium, Jehu. 
2. „ „ Clown. 
3- „ „ Bouquet tie Flora. 
L ,, „ Hero of Surrey. 
5. Geranium, Tom Thumb. 
(i. Crimson China Rose. 
7. Calceolaria floribunrla. 
8. Lobelia erinus grandiflora. 
!). Petunia grandiflora alba. 
10. Mixed Fuchsias. A plant of Fuchsia 
soarletinareflexa, twelve feet high, for 
the centre of the bed, with Coralina, 
Riciartonii and Formosa; and the old 
Globosa outside those ; underneath 
the Fuchsias Heliotropes which will 
cover the bare stem of the Fuchsias. 
a. Verbena Apollon ; violet-purple. 
I b. ,, Ocellata; blush, pink eye. 
c. Verbena Celestine; lilac-blue. 
D. „ 
Pauline; lilac, blush, purple 
E. „ 
Auricula; light violet. 
F. „ 
Macrantlia; rose, dark eye. 
G. „ 
blue. 
Valentine tie Savince; lilac- 
H. „ 
centre. 
Adela; rosy - lilac, purple 
Here is a great novelty in design, and the execution in 
planting is exceedingly good; 1, 2, 3, and 4 being about 
twice the size of the intermediate beds, and planted with 
Geraniums, while the smaller size is planted with smaller 
plants, Verbenas, shows, on the face of it, that the designer 
knew that all the plants in a flower-garden do not grow 
exactly to the same size, and that the sizes of the beds 
should be in proportion to the plants that were intended for 
them, and that is ten times more than many landscape 
gardeners and architects, who draw plans for flowor- 
; gardens, know anything at all about. No one ought to be 
! trusted to make a plan of a flower-garden of five beds 
unless they know exactly the ordinary sizes of the five kinds 
of plants that are intended for them; and not only that, but 
be able to provide Jive changes of plants for each of the 
same beds, and each change to be such plants as will agree 
with the size of the beds. 
The above is the first plan in our scries in which this 
elementary principle is so obviously recognised. I have 
insisted on the same principle for years, and I have gone so 
far as to say that each colour ought to have three sizes of 
beds made for it, in a first-rate design, and I have com¬ 
plained, over and over again, that the great majority of those 
who plan designs for flower-beds make the sizes and situa- 
No. CCLIV., Vol. X. 
