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HOVEY’S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE 
THE ELOWEErGAEDEE. 
The arrangement of a flower-garden must depend so 
much upon the taste or fancy of the cultivator, that it is 
very difficult to lay down any rules applicable to general 
use. All we can ho to aid the inexperienced is to give 
such plans as display correct principles in their general 
features, which will serve as a guide in grounds of 
smaller or larger extent. Of course, we have reference 
to flower-gardens, or spots of ground set apart for annu¬ 
als, bedding-plants, or bulbs, as any thing more extensive 
would require more space than a catalogue affords. 
Where the flower-garden already exists, and is laid 
out in beds or borders for miscellaneous plants, all the 
information necessary to the amateur will be found in 
our preceding remarks, except that, perhaps, in refer¬ 
ence to the disposition of colors. If, however, the form 
is not a fanciful one, or one laid out in the true principles of 
the geometrical style, it may be remodelled upon some 
plan which will combine the merits of some of those we 
now annex. 
Commencing with the simplest form of ground, where 
there is no pretension to much artistic display, the 
following plan (No. 1) will be found well adapted for 
annuals or bedding-plants, or the two combined, and the effect very beautiful if arranged in the 
following order : — 
The centre-bed may be filled with any tall plants of one color; viz., Zinnias, Asters, Marigolds, 
°* balsams. Two of the four oval beds may be Portulaca, scarlet and white, or golden and scarlet; 
the other two blue and white Lobelia, or crimson and white Candytuft. Two of the four large 
beds between the oval ones may be planted with Tropteolums in two colors, and the other two 
with crimson and variegated Petunias. The four small beds may be planted with Abronia urnbellata, 
Nolana, Phlox Drummondii, and Linum grandiflorum. The four oval corner-beds may be planted 
° rnaraen t a bfo!iaged plants, — Perilla in two, edged with the snowy-w’hite Cineraria maritima; 
and Coleus in the other two, edged with Pyrcthrum Golden-feather, which comes true from seed; 
and a very pretty golden-leaved plant it is. Four of the small corner-beds may be filled with Mignon¬ 
ette and Alyssum, and four with Dianthus Ilcddewigii. These mav be varied to suit the fancy of 
the possessor with the newest annuals described in our Guide, selecting them according to colors 
and height of growth. AJ1 the beds should be edged with box or thrift. The extent of ground is 
thirty-two feet square. 
Another very simple but pretty form of ground for a flower-garden is represented in the second 
plan (fto. 2). U will not be necessary to designate all the plants adapted to it, as they may be 
named indefinitely, always keeping in view harmony of colors and the height of the plants. 
lhisplan will admit of the iHbbon style of planting. The four outer beds being arranged as fol¬ 
lows : Perella nankinensis in the centre with a row of Cineraria maritima on each side, and another 
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