Archive image from page 30 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 ( TIE nrrangement of a flower-garden must depend so much upon th« tasto or fancy of tlie cultivator, that it i« very difficult to lay down any niles applicable to general use. All ve can do to aid the inex- perienced is to give such plans us display correct principles in their general features, which will serv-e as a guide in grounds of snialler or larger extent. Of course, we have reference to flowe
Archive image from page 30 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 ( TIE nrrangement of a flower-garden must depend so much upon th« tasto or fancy of tlie cultivator, that it i« very difficult to lay down any niles applicable to general use. All ve can do to aid the inex- perienced is to give such plans us display correct principles in their general features, which will serv-e as a guide in grounds of snialler or larger extent. Of course, we have reference to flower-gardens, or spots of gi-ound set ajiart for annuals, bedding-plants, or bulbs; as anv 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 bo found in our preceding remarks, except that, perhaps, in reference to the diposiuon of colors. If, however, the fonu is not a fanciful one, or one laid out in the true principles of the geometricid 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 bedduig-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, Agrostemraa, Lobelias, &c. The four larger beds may be planted in four dilTerent colors, or mixed, or in ril)bon style; in the latter case, using Perilla Nankinen- sis for the centre row, other decided colors for
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