Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — Dutch Gardens. [ARTICLE]

Dutch Gardens.

A hint which our florists might take with advantage from their English cousins is the cultivation of what are called Dutch gardens. These stiff beds of low flowers, which are so that the whole group is onfl' mass of bloom, either of one variety alone and arranged so that the smaller plants ».-e on the edge, the others sloping up to a comparatively high apex. For instance, in spring there would be late crocuses, then hyacinths, anemones, daffodils, and finally tulips, all blooming together, the time of planting regulating their simultaneous flowering. Some English women have caried this style of gardening to a high degree of perfection, and their stiff geometrical beds and neat walks recall the old-fa-hioned gardens (~w here ladies in high-heeled slippers and stiff brocades drank tea and gossipped with their friends.—[New York Tribune.