FLOWER GARDENS 69 



effectiveness of this garden, which should really have all 

 about it outside of the hedge a great grove of shade 

 trees. The same system may be modified for the smaller 

 \illage lot by keeping a grass plot in the center and run- 

 ning a flower border all around it alongside of the path. 

 It should always be kept in mind that it is a good 

 thing to distinguish a garden as a flower garden, and not 

 as a garden of clipped evergreens and statuary. Italian 

 gardens are a combination of terraces, lawns, fountains, 

 statues, alleys, and flights of steps, ^^ith trees, shrubs, 

 and flowers every^vhere. They may be country places, 

 but they are not gardens in the good old homely English 

 sense, the sense in which we want them, if we vAW 

 consult our o^^^l natural and inherited common sense. 



