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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Mahch 20, I860. 
not quite, as well as those that have never been moved. The 
season for planting is from September to April. I prefer the 
early autumnal months, for then the plants make new roots 
before winter sets in, and are ready to push into active growth 
as soon as the warm weather impels them to do so. As these 
plants lift with largo balls, they may bo moved safely at any 
size, and sent safely to any distance, if the roots are packed in 
damp moss. So that if expense is no object, an immediate 
grand effect may certainly be achieved at once, and permanently. 
The situation for a collection of Rhododendrons should be 
chosen, if possible, in a position neither too much shaded nor too 
much exposed to prevailing winds, in order to obtain the finest 
display of bloom, for if subjected to a continual strong blast the 
plants would be injured. Let this point, also, then be considered 
and act accordingly.—T. ArrLEBY. 
(To be continued .) 
FLOWER-BED ARRANGEMENT. 
Yellow Calceolaria.—No. 1, 7, A, 10. 
Scarlet Geranium.—Nos. 2, 5, 8, 11. 
Purple Verbena.—Nos. 3, 6, 9, 12. 
N.B.—Pale blue Lobelia round 
I enclose you a plan of my garden, as I had it planted last 
season. I found it effective, but I wish to have a change, and 
some newer and still more effective way of planting the garden, 
if you could suggest what I should plant. I kept the outside 
borders clipped low. I thought the purple Yerbcna became 
washy after rain.—H abeiet. 
[Ihebedsin this plan were coloured and looked exceedingly 
well on paper; but like the colours of all bedding plants, when 
given in the lump, or mass, and without the mixture of the 
green of the leaves, is extremely liable to deceive the eye. The 
plan is a wheel with twelve spokes, of three colours matching in 
opposite pairs ; but, in reality, Purple King Verbena between 
Toni Thumb Scarlet Geranium, and Yellow Calceolarias, mixing 
Golden Chain and Flower of the Day Geranium.—No, 13. 
White Alyssum.—Nos. 14, 16. 
Variegated Mint.—Nos. 15, 17. 
the centre bed (13). 
in three different shades of green leaves, is a brown black, not a 
purple ; a jet black would be beautiful there, but Purple King is 
a seedy black, between red and orange. A violet purple, as is on 
the plan, would bo charming indeed, but we have no bedding 
plant to give such a tint. Mrs. Ilolford Yerbcna, instead of 
Purple King, in these four beds, would give, absolutely, the very 
idea of the designer of this style of planting. The rim of the 
wheel, 14, 15, 16, 17, and the axle-box 13, might be of any other 
plants, or colours, without doing violence to the pattern. We 
highly recommend this plan for where it can come in without 
reference to any other part of the flower-beds in a garden, and 
twelve kinds of Verbenas, or twelve kinds of bedding Geraniums, 
or six of one and half a dozen of the other might be planted for 
a change.] 
