IN the Royal Gardens at Kew, near London, England, there was exhibited, last summer, a remarkable example of arrangement in bedding plants. The illustration represents a large round bed, at the end of the broad central walk. The central vaae(l) was of a very elegant design, and filled with Pelargonions, with a tall Humea Elegans in the centre. Around the base of the vase was a circle of Perilla(2). This was enclosed within an octagonal-shaped mass of Pelargonium Waltham Seedling(3). This octagon was again bounded by a double belt of Cen-taurea Candida inside(4), while the semi-circles extended outward(5) were planted with Coleus Verschaffeltii. The concave spaces(6) within the semi-circles were filled with beds of Mrs. Pollock Geranium, which, in themselves, surrounded another small circular bed of Iresine Lindeni(7), A circle of blue Lobelia(8) came next, and ran around the whole bed, broken opposite to the centre of the semicircle by plants of Sempervivum Canariense and S. Arboreum Altropurpureum(9), which proved too large for their position. Outside the circular bell(8) are a series of concentric semicircles, with their convexities directed outward.

The centre of those semi-circles(l0) consists of Echeveria Metallica, and an undergrowth of Alternan-thera Amabilis and Sempervivum Urbicum. This is surrounded by a belt of Golden Feather Pyrethrun(11), which, in its turn, is encircled by a belt of Echeveria Secnnda glauca(12), next to which comes a brilliant and effective zone of Alther-nanthera Paronychioides(13). The sides of the triangular recesses(14, 15) left between the contiguous semi-circles are composed of Golden Feather Pyrethrun, while the base of the triangle is formed by the edging(16) of Echeveria Secnnda glauca, which runs round the entire bed, inside the moulding. In the centre of the triangle(15) are plants of Echeveria Metallica, Sempervivum Californicum, Senecio Pyramidalis, S. Sempervivum Arachnoideum, Altbernanthera versicolor. In alternate beds, Pachyphytum Roseum is substituted for the Senecio.

Plan for a Flower Garden.

It is hardly necessary to say that the display was most striking, and would have been, undoubtedly, more effective, had not the lower and outer portion of the rim been so crowded. An arrangement a little more simple, with a less variety of plants, would have produced a more splendid coloring and contrast.

The diameter of the mound is 40 feet, and circumference 120 feet.