ON LAYING OUT. 
21 
bina; nothing can exceed the gay and flaunty ;ints of a of 
tulips, or the rich hues of the lilac and the white petunia. A 
large space of garden allows its possessor to revel in separate 
beds of flowers, whose beauty is increased twofold by masses; 
and from that very space, the eye does not so easily discover the 
melancholy appearance of one or more plots exhibiting nothing 
but dark mould, and withered stems, arising from the earlier 
sorts being out of bloom. 
But in less spacious gardens, this gloomy and mournful vacuum 
must be avoided. Every border and plot of "ground should ex¬ 
hibit a gay succession of flowers in bloom ; and that object can 
only be effected by a pretty equal distribution of flowers of early 
and late growth. As the May flowers droop, the June produc¬ 
tions supply their place ; and these, again, are followed in succes¬ 
sion, till the Golden rod and Michaelmas day daisy announce the 
decadence of the parterre for the year. 
Yet every flower may be supplied with its favorite soil with a 
little patience and observation. A light soil suits all descriptions 
very well; and I never yet found disappointment in any descrip¬ 
tion of earth which was thoroughly well dug, and dressed yearly 
from the mound of accumulated leaves and soap-suds, alluded to 
in the first chapter. I particularly recommend a portion of sand 
mixed with the heap. All bulbs, carnations, pinks, auriculas, 
ranunculuses, &c., love a mixture of sand. I know no flowers of 
the hardy class which reject it. Mix sand well into your borders 
and plots, and you will not fail to have handsome flowers,, 
I subjoin a list of common flowers appertaining to each month, 
in order to fill the borders with one or more roots of each 
variety. I do not it elude the annuals. 
