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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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angle of45°, and the pedestals d, d, are enclosed in small circular borders, on which maybe placed fragments of rock, or shells, and by the introduction of a little soilamongst them, alpine plants may be successfully grown. The whole of the gardenis encompassed by plantations of low shrubs, or American plants, such as Rhodo-dendions, Ralmias, Daphnes, &c., and the agTeeable effect will be greatly enhanced ifthe boundary border be elevated at the back, so as to deprive the outline of thatsombre and monotonous aspect which it would otherwise present; not forgetting,however, to leave a few open spaces at irregular intervals for the purpose of afford-ing a prospect of the more attractive portions of the pleasure grounds. A flower-garden thus arranged would, we conceive, be in itself a model of per-fection, and the minor scale upon which it is designed renders it available ingardens of very limited area. Indeed, it is chiefly vvith the view of enabling the FLOWER GARDEN.DESIGN NO. I.
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• FLOWER-GARDENS AND TIIEFR ORNAMENTS. 137 owners of small gardens to adorn them Avitli tliis their most lovely feature, thatthe present design has been attempted. That there are few gardens of the abovedenomination which can boast of any allotment worthy of the name of a flower-garden, it will be wholly unnecessary to declare to any of our observant readers,the vast majority of small estates being laid out without cither unity or beauty ofdesign, as regards the ullocation of their respective departments; and while floAver-gardens arc in many instances denied even a place, where there is a piece of grounddevoted to this purpose, the beds, borders, or structures, as w^ell as the individualplants, arc assembled together in the most heterogeneous manner, and the greatestpossible incongruity and disorder prevail. We are induced thus to remark, not inthe language of ridicule, but to urge the advantage and indeed the necessity of en-trusting the primary arrangement and disposition of smal

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