The front and side boundary walls, and the party fence which divides the two back gardens, are supposed to be planted with ivy; and the margins within the side and front boundary walls with laurustinus as an undershrub, and with different species of Crataegus as trees; as far as the culinary part of the back garden, or as far as the reserve ground, according as the taste of the occupier may be for verdant walls during winter and summer, or for fruit trees. The reason for this mode of planting will be hereafter given.

167. In the front garden, g in fig. 45. shows small circular beds (which may be from 1 ft. to 1 ft. 6 in. in diameter) on turf, at regular distances, for containing a few select dahlias, neatly trained to stakes. Instead of dahlias, any other tall-growing plant with showy flowers might be substituted; and the best of these would be chrysanthemums, provided the situation were have had no love for gardening or plants, so captivated by this operation, as to practise it for the sake of the excitement it produces; and such persons have ultimately become enthusiastic florists. When successions! culture, whether by pots or the use of the transplanting instrument, is pursued, the beauty and gaiety which may be displayed in even a very small garden is astonishing; and not less so the amusement and exercise that are by this means created for the occupier. The exercise, indeed, may be increased or diminished, according as the plants chosen are those which remain a long time, or only a short time, in flower. Some plants of great beauty, such as the scarlet verbena, continue blooming three or four months; but others, also of very great beauty, such as the cyclamens, produce all their flowers in the course of a fortnight or three weeks.

The choice of flowers for regular flower gardens is almost endless, but selections may easily be made from the lists in the last book of this work.