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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
prolonged. By planting such things as violas or “tufted
pansies/’ a mass of colour from early spring until late autumn
can be obtained. The garden at Shrublands has been thus
arranged, according to the suggestions of Mr. W. Robinson,
with great success. The beds are filled with roses, pinks,
and carnations, and many hardy plants, the masses of colour
being skilfully arranged. One bed, shown in the illustration,
is composed of Lobelia cardinalis in the centre with a border
of Centaurea ragusina, which makes a striking effect until late in
the year. This bringing back to our gardens the numerous
hardy plants which were banished, and in many cases ruthlessly
torn up and thrown away when the rage for “bedding-out ” came
in, is the greatest improvement of the end of the nineteenth
■century. They are once again holding their proper place, and
with all the new species which every year come to swell the list
of things which will endure our cold climate, more lovely effects
■could be produced than ever were possible with the stiff bedding
plants of forty years ago. But no one would wish to discard
.altogether these half hardy things. Our green-houses, a blaze of
bright colours with tuberous Begonias, or some such flowers, are
a wonderful sight, and even from a practical point of view it is
a good plan to make room in the houses, by planting out some
of these things in the summer. Very different is this arrangement
from devoting all the glass to nurture up geraniums to fill the
whole garden. Bacon’s aim was to have flowers in the garden
during every month of the year, and in his essay he mentions
some for each successive season. Surely after a lapse of three
centuries we ought to be able to attain that object and arrange
that no month should be without its brightening flowers.
“ The daughters of the year
One after one through that still garden passed,
Danced into light and died into the shade.”
v Sirrrttrry."
Among the many plants which have been introduced
of late years the class of Alpines has been very largely
represented. We now possess an immense variety of plants
whose natural place of growth is on rocks, or between the
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
prolonged. By planting such things as violas or “tufted
pansies/’ a mass of colour from early spring until late autumn
can be obtained. The garden at Shrublands has been thus
arranged, according to the suggestions of Mr. W. Robinson,
with great success. The beds are filled with roses, pinks,
and carnations, and many hardy plants, the masses of colour
being skilfully arranged. One bed, shown in the illustration,
is composed of Lobelia cardinalis in the centre with a border
of Centaurea ragusina, which makes a striking effect until late in
the year. This bringing back to our gardens the numerous
hardy plants which were banished, and in many cases ruthlessly
torn up and thrown away when the rage for “bedding-out ” came
in, is the greatest improvement of the end of the nineteenth
■century. They are once again holding their proper place, and
with all the new species which every year come to swell the list
of things which will endure our cold climate, more lovely effects
■could be produced than ever were possible with the stiff bedding
plants of forty years ago. But no one would wish to discard
.altogether these half hardy things. Our green-houses, a blaze of
bright colours with tuberous Begonias, or some such flowers, are
a wonderful sight, and even from a practical point of view it is
a good plan to make room in the houses, by planting out some
of these things in the summer. Very different is this arrangement
from devoting all the glass to nurture up geraniums to fill the
whole garden. Bacon’s aim was to have flowers in the garden
during every month of the year, and in his essay he mentions
some for each successive season. Surely after a lapse of three
centuries we ought to be able to attain that object and arrange
that no month should be without its brightening flowers.
“ The daughters of the year
One after one through that still garden passed,
Danced into light and died into the shade.”
v Sirrrttrry."
Among the many plants which have been introduced
of late years the class of Alpines has been very largely
represented. We now possess an immense variety of plants
whose natural place of growth is on rocks, or between the