E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 HE arrangement of a flo-^er-garden mnst depend so much npon the taste or fancy of the cultivator, that it is verr difficiilt to lay down any rules applicable to general use. All vre can do to aid the inex- perienced is to give such plans as display correct principles in their general features, which will seiwe as a guide in gi-ounds of smaller or larger extent. Of course, we have reference to flower-gardens, or spots of ground set apart for annuals, bedding-plants, or bul
E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 HE arrangement of a flo-^er-garden mnst depend so much npon the taste or fancy of the cultivator, that it is verr difficiilt to lay down any rules applicable to general use. All vre can do to aid the inex- perienced is to give such plans as display correct principles in their general features, which will seiwe as a guide in gi-ounds of smaller or larger extent. Of course, we have reference to flower-gardens, or spots of ground set apart for annuals, bedding-plants, or bulbs; as any thing more extensive would be beyond the scope of a catalogue. 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 reference to the disposition of colors. If, however, the forai is not a fanciful one, or one laid out in the time principles of the geometrical style, it may be remodelled upon some plan which will com- bine the merits of those we now annex. Commencing with the simplest form of ground, where there is no pretension to artistic display, the two following will be found well adapted for annuals or bedding-plants, or the two combined. In the first plan (No. 1), the ground may be arranged as follows: In the centre may be double Zinnias, if a grand display is desired; but if not, then Zinnias, Marigolds, Asters, and similar tall-growing annuals, placing the tallest in the centre. The eight small beds adjoining the centre one may be planted in alternate colors, or mixed with Clintonia, Portu- laca. Verbenas, Pansies, Agrostemma, Lobelias, &c. The four larger beds may be planted in four different colors, or mixed, or in ribbon stj'le; in the latter case, using Perilla Nankinen- sis for the centre row, and other decided colors for the outer rows, which should be dwarf at the edge. The four comer-beds may be
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