THE DESIGN ATTRACTIVE 17 



enhances wall draperies. Even so, flowers and good designs 

 will rescue your vegetable garden from unsightliness and make 

 it fair to see. 



Perhaps you'll decide to use the flowers for borders along the 

 walks or paths. For in a formal garden one must have walks. 

 They are the very basis for such a plan. And surely they are 

 necessary for circulation also. 



Many interesting arrangements of walks and garden beds 

 will suggest themselves. Here we present several attractive types, 

 which gain added attractiveness if they bear proper relation to the 

 main features of the home grounds. 



The designs are offered merely as suggestions. Most plant- 

 ing problems are individual and a proper adaptation of these 

 types, or, perhaps, something refreshingly new and original may 

 prove even better. When once we begin to think about design, 

 attractive schemes have a pleasant habit of suggesting themselves. 

 Here are more sketches of inviting possibilities, one suggesting a 

 walk through an orchard. That should be a happy picture. Or, 

 perhaps, we'll find making the garden part of the drive scheme 

 more in tune with our particular problem. Workable variations 

 are likely to prove more numerous than we may have thought. 



And when planting time comes there are still plenty of ways 

 to remember design. The relation one to another of our growing 

 things as regards height and spread may make or mar the beauty 

 which we seek. The usual rule is to use tall varieties for a back- 

 ground and to keep the lowest sorts in the immediate foreground 

 It is a good rule but it musn't be made too absolute, for 

 even though we don't follow the rule to the letter it is sure to 

 prove helpful, a useful reminder when doubt creeps in. 



