. Amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden: containing a descriptive list of two thousand varieties of flower and vegetable seeds; also a list of French hybrid gladiolus. Gardening; Vegetable gardening; Seed industry and trade. "cilL^ SS Heddiwiggi. These may be varied to suit the fancy of the possessor with the newest annuals de- scribed in the Catalogue, selecting them according to colors, and height of growth. All the beds should be edged with box or thrift. The extent of ground is thirty-two feet square. For more artistic and complete grounds, we add two plans from
. Amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden: containing a descriptive list of two thousand varieties of flower and vegetable seeds; also a list of French hybrid gladiolus. Gardening; Vegetable gardening; Seed industry and trade. "cilL^ SS Heddiwiggi. These may be varied to suit the fancy of the possessor with the newest annuals de- scribed in the Catalogue, selecting them according to colors, and height of growth. All the beds should be edged with box or thrift. The extent of ground is thirty-two feet square. For more artistic and complete grounds, we add two plans from two of the most elegant flower- gardens of England. The first plan (No. 3) is extensive and elrborate in design, and evinces artistic skill and arrangement of a high order. The length of the garden is a hundred and sixty feet, and the width seventy-two feet. The walks are of gravel, and the beds are all edged with box. It may be filled with bedding-plants or with annuals ; and, supposing the amateur to desire a mix- ture of the two, the following is an appro- priate list. Scarlet Geraniums and Verbenas being the most effective of bedding-plants : 1. Verbena (blue). 2. Verbena (white). 3. Pansies, of the fine shovyy sorts. 4. Portulaca (white). 5. Tom Thumb Geranium. 6. Verbena (striped). 7. Portulaca (golden). 8. Campanula Carpatica, with Tree Rose in the centre. g. The same. 10. Tom Thumb Geranium. 11. Portulaca (white). 12. Verbena (striped). 13. Portulaca (golden). 14. Pansies of the fine showy sorts. 15. Verbena (white). 16. Verbena (blue). 17. Ageratum. 18. Heliotrope, ig. Tom Thumb Geranium. 20. Verbena, Sunset (rose). 21. Portulaca (golden). 22. Portulaca (scarlet). 23. Same as No. 8. f^ 24. Geranium, Lucia Rosea (pink). Q 25. Tom Thumb Geranium. ;5 26. Tom Thumb Geranium. 27. Geranium, Lucia Rosea (pink). 28. Portulaca (scarlet). 2g. Tom Thumb Geranium. 30. Heliotrope. 31. Verbena, Sunset. 32. Portulaca (golden). 33. Ageratum. 34. Same as No. 8. 35. Vase, or Statue. I{a
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