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TO THE FLOWER-GARDEN. 
row of blue Lobelia which would give the “ Red, white, and blue.” The inner beds may be planted 
in a similar manner, using Amaranthus tricolor for the centre row, Tagetes signata pumila for 
the next, and Sweet Alyssura or Candytuft for the next. The centre bed may be the Feathered Celosia, 
Zinnias, Asters, or Scarlet Nasturtiums. All the beds should be edged with box, to look perfectly 
neat, or with Thrift, the next best edging for small beds. 
For more artistic and complete grounds, we add two plans from two of the most elegant flower- 
gardens of England. 
The next plan (No 3) is extensive and elaborate in 
design, and evinces artistic skill and arrangement 
of a high order. The length of the garden is a 
hundred am* sixty feet, and the width seventy-two 
feet. The walks are of gravel, and the beds are all 
edged with box. It may be filled with bedding- 
plants or with annuals; and, suppo.-ing the amateur 
to desire a mixture of'the two, the following is an 
appropriate list, Scarlet Geraniums and Verbenas 
being the most effective of bedding-plants: — 
1. Verbena (blue). 
2. Verbena (white). 
3. Pansies, of the tine showy sorts. 
4. Portulaca (white). 
5. Tom Thumb Geranium. 
6. Verbena (striped). 
7. Portulaca (golden). 
8. Lobelia (blue) with Tree Rose in the centre. 
9. The same. 
10. Tom Thumb Geranium. 
11. Portulaca (white). 
12. Verbena (striped) 
13. Portulaca (golden). 
14. Pansies of the fine showy sorts. 
15. Verbena (white). 
16. Verbena (blue). 
17. Dianthus Ileddewigii (dark colors). 
18. Heliotrope. 
19. Tom Thumb Geranium. 
20. Verbena (rose). 
21. Portulaca (golden). 
22. Phlox Druinmondii. 
23. Same as No. 8. 
24. Geranium, Christine (pink). 
25. Geranium (new double). 
26. Geranium (new double). 
27. Geranium, Christine (pink). 
28. Phlox Drummondii (light colors). 
29. Tom Thumb Geranium. 
30. Heliotrope. 
31. Verbena (scarlet). 
32. Portulaca (golden). 
33. Dianthus Heddiwigii. 
34. Same as No. 8. 
35. Vase, or Statue. If a vase, to be filled with 
Verbenas, Petunias, &c. If a statue, to be 
surrounded with a circle of Oxalis floribunda. 
Rut when it is intended to be filled with annuals, 
this may easily be done by substituting Candytuft, 
Alyssura, Eschscholtzia, Double Zinnias, Lobelia, 
French Asters, Agrostemma, Petunias, Dwarf Con¬ 
volvulus, Clarkias. &c. 
The last plan which we give (No. 4) is a copy of 
the flower-garden at Dropmore, near London. In 
harmony of arrangement, it stands very high; and 
offering, as it does, a great variety in the disposition 
of the beds, it contains, in an eminent degree, the 
two great elements a of select garden,— harmony 
and variety. “ Two things,” says a well-known 
writer, “ are necessary to the beauty of a flower- 
garden,— harmony and variety. Harmony consists 
in agreeableness of form, likeness of size, and rela¬ 
tion of color; variety is the indefinite diversity of 
vegetative existence. If there is variety merely, the 
garden is strange, extraordinary, fantastic; it is not fine. If harmony alone is displayed, then it is 
monotonous, dull, and wearisome. But in the happy combination of the two resides its power to 
awaken agreeable sensations, and impart delight. This union is well exemplified in this plan.” 
The scale is thirty-two feet to the inch, which would make the garden about one hundred and 
seventy-five long and eighty feet wide. 
In the Autumn the bed may be wholly filled with bulbs; they will be all out of flower by June, 
and may at once be taken up and the ground planted with annuals in the following order: — 
All the plants to produce immediate effect should be raised in hotbeds or frames, and well estab¬ 
lished in pots ready for planting out as early as June 1. The whole will then be in bloom in August, 
and continue to October. 
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