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Wherever creeping flowering plants can live, let them adcrn every 
nook and corner, stem, wall, and post; they are elegant in ap¬ 
pearance, and many of them, particularly clematis, are delicious 
in fragrant scent. 
If flowers are planted in round or square plots; the same ruk 
applies in arranging them. The tallest must be placed in thi 
center, but I recommend a lady to banish sunflowers and holly 
hocks from her plots, and consign them to broad borders against 
a wall, or in clumps of three and three, as a screen against the 
north, or against any unsightly object. Their large roots draw 
so much nourishment from the ground, that the lesser plants suf¬ 
fer, and the soil becomes quickly exhausted. Like gluttons, they 
should feed alone, or their companions will languish in starvation, 
and become impoverished. The wren cannot feed with the vul¬ 
ture. 
T^e south end or corner of a moderate flower garden should 
be fixed upon for the erection of a root house, which is not an 
expensive undertaking, and which forms a picturesque as well as 
a most useful appendage to a lady’s parterre. Thinnings of 
plantations, which are everywhere procured at a very moderate 
charge, rudely shaped and nailed into any fancied form, may 
supply all that is needful to the little inclosure ; and a thatch of 
straw, rushes, or heather, will prove a sure defense to the roof 
and back. There, a lady may display her taste by the beauty of 
the flowers which she may train through the rural frame-work. 
There, the moss-rose, the jessamine, the honeysuckle, the convol¬ 
vulus, and many other bright and beautiful flowers, may escape 
and cluster around her, as she receives rest and shelter within 
their graceful lattice-work. There, also, may be deposited the 
implements of her vocation; and during the severe weather, its 
warm precincts will protect the finer kinds of carnations, putks, 
