MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 65 
vation was possible. It is probable that this garden will not 
be completed until time to do the planting for next spring’s 
bulb-display. 
The concentration of the formal areas into these two locali- 
ties will add much to their effectiveness and will have the 
further advantage of harmonizing with the formality of 
the massive houses near them. The water garden while 
being strictly formal will have a softening influence that will 
not detract in any way from the greenhouses themselves. 
Main Garden Proper—The remodeling of the parterre 
was essentially a rearrangement of existing conditions, but in 
the part of the Garden between the mausoleum and the 
parterre nothing of the old arrangement remains to indicate 
where things formerly were. In place of the flat, hedge- 
covered plain, with its myriads of small beds and maze of 
walks, there is now a rolling landscape, covered with shrub- 
bery and flowers, with long stretches of lawn broken by a 
small stream and its accompanying pools. The Torinslity 
is gone and in its place appears a bit of natural landscape 
much more pleasing and restful than any formal garden 
could ever be. 
Grading.—The area south of the formal garden, where most _ 
of the changes have been effected, was formerly an even slope 
from east to west with a decided dip to the north. The new 
walks constructed this spring nearly surround this part of the 
Garden, and, in order that everything need not be viewed 
across this area, an effort was made in grading to break up 
the landscape so as to frame in the view by small knolls, mak- 
ing the — object to be seen appear at the end of a 
valley. In nature we generally look down the valley for our 
views, not across the hills, but with them. The landsca 
painter frames in his pictures with trees and shrubs, and the 
photographer makes an effort to properly balance his effect; 
so here in making a real picture an effort has been made to 
achieve the same result, it being necessary to take into 
account the added difficulty that, unlike the  cggttead and the 
photographer, we have to deal with a highly complex and 
uneven surface. 
Reference to the plan will show that this gently sloping 
hillside is now a series of small hills with the valleys converg- 
ing to the north. In the lowest part of the valley, a pool wi 
its accompanying stream suggested itself as the natural 
thing. e picture can, of course, only be a miniature, for 
