Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In hort, a system of bedding in which neat dwarf-growing foliage-plants alone are used in the form of mosaic, geometrical, or other designs. Also called
ribbon-bedding in the United States.
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Examples
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It embraces a number of the plants in common use for carpet-bedding, although not all of them.
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There are two types of outdoor gardening in which the progress of the season is not definitely expressed, -- in the carpet-bedding kind, and in the subtropical kind.
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It must be borne in mind by the amateur florist that success in carpet-bedding depends nearly as much on the care given as on the material used.
Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover 1882
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This is a most excellent plant for use in carpet-bedding because of its close, compact habit of growth, and its very symmetrical shape which is retained throughout the entire season without shearing or pruning.
Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover 1882
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Some persons are under the impression that flowering plants can be used to good effect in carpet-bedding.
Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover 1882
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The best plants to use in carpet-bedding are the following:
Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover 1882
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So many persons have asked for designs for carpet-bedding, that I will accompany this chapter with several original with myself which have proved very satisfactory.
Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover 1882
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The standard reached beneath the windows should at least be kept up, if it cannot be surpassed, right away through, and the German popular plan in this matter quite discarded of concentrating all the available splendour of the establishment into the supreme effort of carpet-bedding and glass balls on pedestals in front of the house, in the hope that the stranger, carefully kept in that part, and on no account allowed to wander, will infer an equal magnificence throughout the entire domain; whereas he knows very well all the time that the landscape round the corner consists of fowls and dust-bins.
The Solitary Summer Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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