A Flower Garden Parterre 



of imagination displayed in the lines of the path I 

 should lay the blame on the architect, who placed the 

 entrance-gate at the nearest possible point to the front 

 door, perhaps not a bad fault either. 



On entering the gate Miss Brown has arranged an 

 attractive perspective towards the southern end by 

 introducing a path that eventually leads naturally to 

 the other side of the house, and is planted on one side 

 by a very serviceable herbaceous border, opposite 

 which is the kitchen garden, admirably arranged for 

 convenience to the kitchen. An edging of some sort 

 to the vegetable plot is suggested in the plan, and I 

 think this could be of nothing better than Lavender. 

 This would serve to give balance to the view, and form 

 altogether a pretty picture from a point just inside the 

 entrance-gate. 



The placing of the little frame yard in such a posi- 

 tion that it is out of sight from every point in the 

 garden that matters, and the suggestion for screening 

 it from view by a short length of hedge, is to be com- 

 mended as one of those happy thoughts that appear 

 to be so unimportant in practice, but which often make 

 or mar a small garden scheme. Then the view from 

 the eastern dining-room window, down the path 

 between fruit-trees (dwarf or bush fruit-trees would be 

 best here) towards the herbaceous border, would be 

 quite pleasant. That from the southern window is 

 not quite so happy, and I think some more interesting 

 termination than a blank hedge could have been devised 

 here. Of course, one is restricted by circumstances, 

 and in this case the view was subordinated to the 

 development of the flower garden parterre, quite an 



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