. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 8UBUBBAN GAEDENINa. 285 â whicli we have allowed sufficient ground, pro- vided guard-nets are used at the margins where coming somewhat too close up to the borders of the shrubs. In the event of no such games being required, we would advise the addition of a few beds of the choicer Rhododendrons and other dwarf, or comparatively dwarf, perma- nent kind of plants, in prefer- ence to marking out any set de- sign of flower- beds for tender plants, which at the best only last in beauty for a few months. Plants of a per- manent charac- ter, although in- ^â¢
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 8UBUBBAN GAEDENINa. 285 â whicli we have allowed sufficient ground, pro- vided guard-nets are used at the margins where coming somewhat too close up to the borders of the shrubs. In the event of no such games being required, we would advise the addition of a few beds of the choicer Rhododendrons and other dwarf, or comparatively dwarf, perma- nent kind of plants, in prefer- ence to marking out any set de- sign of flower- beds for tender plants, which at the best only last in beauty for a few months. Plants of a per- manent charac- ter, although in- ^â¢olving a trifling Increase in out- lay at the first, will soon recoup themselves both in the amount of labour expended on them, and in the saving effected in the non-purchase of tender bedding- plants for filling flower-beds dur- ing the summer months. We have given the plan as pre- senting an en- trance front facing the east^ with sufiicient allowance for a carriage-drive to the front door, with gates for ingress and egress, which will be found far more convenient than one gate only for both purposes, with the consequent occupation of a sufficient space for the turning round of any con- veyance that may enter. On this front we would advise a few tall trees or shrubs opposite the front door, to screen the same from the road. A Copper Beech would look well as a central plant if flanked. Fis by evergreens, and one or two Laburnums would present a beautiful contrast to the Beech when they are in flower. A narrow margin next the grass, and in front of the shrubs, might be planted with the hardiest of flowering plants, such as the common white Pink, Lon- don Pride, or similar dwarf plants of a per- manent char- acter. On the north-east side the sj)ace allotted for shrubs should be somewhat elevated ground, to act as a screen from east winds to the portion marked out for hardy ferns and rock plants. We have made a rather prominent feature of these for that spot, where they would s
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