. The Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . You see I will havevariety in everything. Not quits yet, was the calm reply; the two sides of the carriage are yellow, the two wheels areblue. What a pity there should be any uniformity. Could we see the desirableness of encouraging this mere taste for variety instead of any attempt at balanoing in regular geo-metric parterres, we should have given the planting in theseparterres at Straffan in 1861 as combining variety and somelittle duplicating and balancing with much harmony and as Mr. Kelly has most kindly gi
. The Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . You see I will havevariety in everything. Not quits yet, was the calm reply; the two sides of the carriage are yellow, the two wheels areblue. What a pity there should be any uniformity. Could we see the desirableness of encouraging this mere taste for variety instead of any attempt at balanoing in regular geo-metric parterres, we should have given the planting in theseparterres at Straffan in 1861 as combining variety and somelittle duplicating and balancing with much harmony and as Mr. Kelly has most kindly given us the lists of severalyears planting, and told us to take which we liked, and say anddo just what we liked with them, we have with some reluctancetaken the planting of 1862, because assured by visitors that theresults were at least equally gorgeous with 1861, because weourselves are more pleased with the more simple mode adopted,and because Mr. Kelly himself, after being so successful in plantingfor variety, has last season adopted chiefly the balancing The beds are all numbered, except the four large ones at thefour corners, which are named first, second,. &c. The parterreon the left-hand side of the centre walk was thus planted:—1, Lobelia speciosa; 2, 2, Yellow Calceolarias ; 3, Tom ThumbGeranium; 4, 4, Lord of the Isles pink Verbena and Saponariacalabrica ; 5, 5, + cross of Tom Thumb, filled up with Elowerof the Day and Manglesii Geraniums; 6, 6, Purple King Ver-bena ; 7, 7, Annie Clayton Verbena, white, and Cerastium to-mentosum ; 8, 8, Mrs. Archer Clive Verbena, maroon, andRouge et Noir Verbena; 9, Yellow Calceolaria; 10, ribboned— March 10, 1863. ] JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 185 eentre Golden Chain Geranium, sides Lobelia speciosa; 11, Pe-rilla centre, Tropjeolum Stamfordianum aides ; 12, ribboned—Heliotrope centre, sides Tom Thumb Geranium; 13, 13, CeriseUnique Geranium, and Lord Raglan Verbena; 14, 14, Silver-edged and Manglesii G
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