Un desira ble Triangles 



same time devise some means of introducing enough 

 grass to soften the effects of the stone. In this design 

 it could have been done quite successfully by paving 

 the path between the Rose-beds and the herbaceous 

 borders, and along the northern end, leaving the 

 remainder in grass. The tennis-lawn is well placed, 

 and there could have been no better position 

 allotted for the rock garden than in the angle 

 at the entreme southern end. The views from 

 the windows are generally carefully studied, although 

 I might point out that providing window pic- 

 tures does not always mean creating a view down a 

 straight path. The hardy plant border, with flower- 

 ing shrubs at intervals, offers a fine perspective from 

 either end. The circle terminating the pergola might 

 have been better arranged, and I hardly think it was 

 necessary to make a sort of cross of this path. The 

 little dead ends of path sticking into the border would 

 make odd and ugly little angles that, however success- 

 fully they might be planted, would remain ugly. The 

 pergola here is as well placed as a pergola can be in 

 such a garden. The design fails, however, in the 

 division of the triangular plot into its component parts, 

 beds, borders, etc., in that it divides one large triangle 

 into a number of smaller ones. Of all the shapes that 

 can be given to flower beds, borders, or any other 

 planting area the triangle is the worst. Its acute 

 angles are never tidy, and the tapering points are never 

 properly filled with plants." Either the plants that are 

 placed therein ramble in an untidy fashion over the 

 paths, because the beds are too narrow at that par- 

 ticular point to contain them, or to avoid this the points 

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