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orj^ame:ntal gardei^ikg. 



to 52 show four beds of irregular outline, suitable for 

 planting with dilferent kinds or colors as indicated by 

 dotted lines, or the same shaped beds may be planted 

 with a single kind. If such beds of any desired size, 

 say from four to eight feet across, are cut into the lawn, 

 and i^lanted with Coleus, Geraniums, Cannas, Alternan- 

 theras, or other showy plants, they will be very pleasing. 



For larger beds of circular outline, from ten to twenty 

 feet across, the designs from figures 53 to 58 are any of 

 them handsome for garden law^ns, if well planted with a 

 good selection of kinds. The central figures alone of 

 several of these miglit be laid out in the lawn, depending 

 on the grass for ground work with capital effect. 



Two beds of oval shape are shown in figures 59 and 60. 

 In some places such a form is required in preference to 



Fig. 59. Fig. 60. 



ELABORATE BEDS OF OVAL FORM. 



the round. The various designs here given may be the 

 means of suggesting others to the inventive mind. I 

 have not taken space to illustrate plain circles, stars, 

 crescents, squares, triangles, and other simple designs, all 

 of which look attractive in the lawn, and are easily made 

 by any one. In all cases, whatever designs are used, let 

 them be quite simple. While it is easy to draught an 

 elaborate plan that will be satisfactory in pen or pencil 

 marks upon paper, the same might be very difficult to 

 work out in plants. 



