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2053. Whatever plants are used for partitioning off or defining spaces on 

 borders, they must be distinct from those filling up the insterstices. This 

 point secured, it is of comparatively little importance what is used ; only I 

 think, as a rule, the dividing plants should be at least as high, or a little 

 higher than the others. I have seen them clipped lower, which I consider 

 bad taste. The idea of complete separation demands that the barrier shall 

 be high enough and strong enough to insure this object. Hence, too, where 

 the patches of plants are large and massive, the subdividing lines should be 

 from three to five deep, instead of a single line. No general rule can be laid 

 down : a cultivated taste on the spot alone can determine the relative pro- 

 portions that the principles of congruity would require. 



2054. But I must hasten on to give an example or two of the grouping of 

 flower-gardens and detached groups of beds. 



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At the seat of Col. Sowerby, Patteridge Bury, Herts j Mr. Kobert Fish, gardener. 



