The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . The Cunningham RDEiilK^ ^ Design for a Flo^wer-Garden. UPON the opposite page, we present a design for a flower-garden, which has themerit of a beautiful simplicity, and yet aflbrds the opportunity of an exhibition ofchoice taste. The old-fashioned style of flower-gardening, that of devoting a part of the vegetable-garden, the sides of the paths, or to cut out here and there little squares and trianglesof earth and edged with a little box, is by no means the best or most pleasing. Modern taste prescribes a beautiful lawn in
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . The Cunningham RDEiilK^ ^ Design for a Flo^wer-Garden. UPON the opposite page, we present a design for a flower-garden, which has themerit of a beautiful simplicity, and yet aflbrds the opportunity of an exhibition ofchoice taste. The old-fashioned style of flower-gardening, that of devoting a part of the vegetable-garden, the sides of the paths, or to cut out here and there little squares and trianglesof earth and edged with a little box, is by no means the best or most pleasing. Modern taste prescribes a beautiful lawn in front of or around the mansion, andthen to cut here and there on its surface little fancy figures and shapes of earth, anddrop in them the precious seeds or roots which are to give so much pleasure by theirbeauty of form, foliage, and flower. By reference to the plan here given, it will be seen that a judicious blending of thebeauty of the lawn and the flowers planted on its surface is given, while the choice ofshrubs, flowers, or bulbs to be planted will give an infinite range f
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