. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE FLOWER GARDEN. 45 fvcin a popular and a professional point of view. We trust to refresh the memory of the professional gardener, guide the faltering- steps of the amateur, and teach the shopman and the artisan on all matters relating to the forming and furnishing of their flower gardens. The great and still increasing interest that of late - race with anything in seeds, plants, or flowers, that may he thought to he an advance on previous intro- ductions. The fact that the writer has heen one of the most susceptible of mortals to the flower garden-
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE FLOWER GARDEN. 45 fvcin a popular and a professional point of view. We trust to refresh the memory of the professional gardener, guide the faltering- steps of the amateur, and teach the shopman and the artisan on all matters relating to the forming and furnishing of their flower gardens. The great and still increasing interest that of late - race with anything in seeds, plants, or flowers, that may he thought to he an advance on previous intro- ductions. The fact that the writer has heen one of the most susceptible of mortals to the flower garden- ing fever, must doubtless be credited with his selec- tion for the task he has undertaken, to treat upon flower gardening from his point of Garden in Old-fashioned Picturesque Style. years has been taken by every class of the population in all that concerns horticulture, is a cheering sign of the advancement, education, and refinement of the people. That flower gardening is the favourite hranch of horticulture, none will doubt who have witnessed the crowds of admirers the flowers attract, on Sundays and holiday times in particular, both in the metropolitan and provincial parks. As might have been expected, this appreciation by the general public has had a corresponding effect on every gardener, and still more on every one professionally connected with gardening, so that now ever}- one vies with his neighbour as to who shall be flrst in the Position for a Flower Garden.—This is a point of great importance, but obviously circum- stances must govern the selection in by far the greater number of cases. As a matter of course, the ruling point must be the position of the house or mansion, because, to get the largest amount of pleasure from the flowers, they should be so placed that they may be admired independently of the weather. Not that it is undesirable to have flowers elsewhere, as our remarks will presently indicate ; but, first and foremost, provision should certainly
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