Victorian gardens: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds (1870)
Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919 · [n.p.] D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 257
species in each bed. The outside tier of beds are for low beddingflowers or annuals, which should not exceed fifteen inches in heightfor the centres, or more than six inches near the borders. Fig. 52 represents a circular-bed with one of the pendulous firsmentioned in a preceding page, in its… … The common firs are often planted to form centres for such beds,but they soon grow to such over-shadowing size as to be quite un-suitable. The weeping silver fir, and weeping Norway spruce,however, are pendulous to such a degree that they make but slowadditions to their breadth. If their central…
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