Carpet Bedding Designs for Victoria Park, London, from Thompson's 'Gardener's Assistant'

A chromolithograph by G. Severeyns after a drawing by F.W. Burbidge depicting carpet bedding designs' for a circular bed planted in Victoria Park, London, in 1875, plus a portion of a border design. The bedding plants listed are:
Upper fig. - 1. Cerastium tormentosa, 2. Altenanthera amoena, 3. Pyrethrum Golden Feather, 4. Mesembryanthemum cordifolium variegatum, 5. Altenanthera magnifica, 6. Echeveria secunda glauca
Lower fig. - 1. Sempervivum calcareum, 2. Lobelia pumila grandiflora, 3. Cerastium arvense, 4. Altenanthera amoena, 5. Pyrethrum Golden Feather, 6. Sedum glaucum, 7. Cerastium tormentosa, 8. Sempervivum canariense

From 'The Gardener's Assistant' by Robert Thompson, with this new edition revised and extended by Thomas Moore 'assisted by eminent practical gardeners' and published by Blackie & Son, London in 1878. The first edition of the Gardener's Assistant was published in 1859 and final version appears to be the 'new edition' published in 1913 just prior to World War I by The Gresham Publishing Company in six volumes.