. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. 256 FLOWERS AND BEDDING PLANTS, Fig. engraving at the end of this chapter. Tliis would require a different style of planting. Supposing its base to be four feet in diameter, there would, be a margin of two feet all around it for low trailing flowers. The design for a basket-vase is intended for an open lawn, and shows a collection of plants quite different from what would be best for the design under consideration. Here we would have for its centre a single grou
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. 256 FLOWERS AND BEDDING PLANTS, Fig. engraving at the end of this chapter. Tliis would require a different style of planting. Supposing its base to be four feet in diameter, there would, be a margin of two feet all around it for low trailing flowers. The design for a basket-vase is intended for an open lawn, and shows a collection of plants quite different from what would be best for the design under consideration. Here we would have for its centre a single group of the Canna sanguinea chatei, surrounded by a circle of Japanese maize; next a circle of Salvia argentea, and for the outside border the Lady Pollock geranium inter-planted with some of the slender, drooping, light-leaved plants, named farther on in this chapter, for the decoration of vases. If this central bed is to have neither a pedestal-vase nor basket- vase, it may still be made the most conspicuous point of interest in the parterre with plants alone. It is desirable that the lawn should rise gently towards it on all sides, and that the bed be raised in the centre as much as may be without making the earth liable to be washed upon the lawn. In the centre, if this flower-garden is intended to be pe?'manent, we would plant the remarkable variety of the European silver fir, known as the I^icea fedinata pendula, or the variety of the Norway spruce, known as the Abies excelsa in- verta, shown in Fig. 52 ; and around it a circle of the tallest Japan lilies j next a circle of the mountain-of-snow geranium alternated. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Scott, Frank Jesup, 1828- [from old catalog]. New York, D. Appleton & co.
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