The centre bed (ft) may have a sun-dial in the middle, rising from the base, surrounded by rockwork (the manner of forming which will bo given hereafter), planted with select creeping plants; and there may be a vase for plants on a pedestal in each of the beds c and d; the pedestal being surrounded by climbers, to be trained to it, but not higher than the base of the vase. Throughout the floral months, these vases might be filled with pots of plants in flower, and throughout the winter with evergreens. The beds e e may then be filled with red-flowering low plants, allowing an equal number for every floral month; f f , with white-flowering plants; g g, with blue-flowering plants; and h h , with yellow-flowering plants. The small beds may have crocuses round their margins and in the centre mignonette. As this plant is never fragrant except in poor soil, these beds should consist almost entirely of lime rubbish, except round the margins where the crocuses were planted. Among the shrubs we would plant bulbs of as many low-growing kinds as room could be found for, but no fibrous-rooted herbaceous plants whatever.

Bulbs among evergreens make a very fine appearance in spring; and, as their foliage dies off altogether in summer, they have not that littery, disorderly appearance which herbaceous perennials in shrubberies usually have when they have done flowering.