SHRUB AND FLOWER BORDERS 259 



quantities of grand shrubs and plants that are only 

 waiting to be well used would be made into lovely 

 pictures, instead of being planted in the usual un- 

 thinking fashion, which is without definite aim, and 

 therefore cannot possibly make any good effect. 



We do not, as a rule, plant upright-growing 

 Conifers of the Juniper and Cypress class in our 

 flower borders, and yet the illustration shows how 

 this may be done with the very 'happiest effect. Pro- 

 bably in this case the trees were there already, and the 

 flower border was wanted, and therefore was made 

 in circumstances that would not have been specially 

 arranged at the outset. But it has been done with 

 rare intelligence and sympathy, and the result is 

 excellent. Here also is seen the best kind of edge 

 treatment, for the grass is either cut with the scythe 

 or the plants at the edge are lifted with a stick as 

 the machine runs along, so that the usual pitiless 

 machine edge is not seen, and the plants at the side 

 bush out over the grass just as they should do. This 

 is a thing that is rarely seen well done in gardens. 



