60 HOW TO PLAN THE HOME GROUNDS 



be kept supplied with flowers, and the general effect of 

 the open level spaces retained low and neat. 



There is, as a rule, a stone wall, or vine-covered 

 fence, or hedges of shrubbery surrounding the garden, 

 and along this can run herbaceous borders of old-fash- 

 ioned flowers, while in all the central beds will come low 

 annuals and so-called bedding plants (see pages 59 and 

 65). The effect of this arrangement not only tends to 



CORNER OF A FORMAL FLOWER GARDEN 



neatness and well-ordered conditions, but it enables the 

 eye to travel unobstructed over the lower-growing beds 

 to the large herbaceous plants on the borders of the 

 garden. The only difficulty with this treatment is the 

 necessity it imposes of erecting some kind of propagat- 

 ing greenhouses where annuals and tender plants can 

 be grown in order to keep up a supply of the right kinds 

 of material for the garden. This does not involve grow- 

 ing plants for greenhouse exhibition, but only a modest 

 supply for the garden. 



