. Alpine flowers for English gardens. Mountain plants; Flower gardening. Alpine Plants growing in a level border. (A Garden Sketch, June, 1871.) bulbs, and alpine plants. Another of a very attractive des- cription may be made by the use of bedding plants only, from Dahlias and Gladioli to the smallest kinds, but we will now confine ourselves to the old-fashioned sort made with hardy plants alone. There is a symmetrical system, which must be entirely avoided—that of placing quantities of one thing, good or bad, as the case may be, at regular intervals from each other. The very reverse of that i
. Alpine flowers for English gardens. Mountain plants; Flower gardening. Alpine Plants growing in a level border. (A Garden Sketch, June, 1871.) bulbs, and alpine plants. Another of a very attractive des- cription may be made by the use of bedding plants only, from Dahlias and Gladioli to the smallest kinds, but we will now confine ourselves to the old-fashioned sort made with hardy plants alone. There is a symmetrical system, which must be entirely avoided—that of placing quantities of one thing, good or bad, as the case may be, at regular intervals from each other. The very reverse of that is the true system for the best and most interesting kind of mixed border. In a well-arranged one, no six feet of its length should resemble any other six feet of the same border. Certainly it may be desirable to have several specimens of a favourite plant; but any approach to planting the same thing in numerous places along the same line should be avoided. I should not, for instance, place one of the neat Saxifrages along in front of the border at regular intervals, fine and well suited as it might be for that purpose; but, on the contrary, attempt to produce in all parts totally distinct types of 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 Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935; Bailey, William Whitman, 1843-1914. London : Murray
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