CHAPTER IV 

 FORMATION OF A FLOWER GARDEN 



What we mean by a Flower Garden. 



THE formation of the vegetable garden having been 

 dealt with, we turn to treat of the flower garden in like 

 manner. For the purposes of treatment only have I 

 divorced the flower garden from the pleasure ground. In 

 practice there can be no such separation without marring 

 the beauty of either, and lending colour to the idea, that 

 the person to whom was entrusted the laying out of the 

 grounds was not gifted with a right sense of proportion, 

 and deficient in a true conception of the picturesque. 

 I intend in this chapter to treat merely of the arrangement 

 of beds and borders for flowers, and will leave out of my 

 calculations such matters as the grouping and arrangement 

 of shrubs whether flowering or otherwise. The subject of 

 bedding or the arrangement of plants within the beds and 

 borders will be treated of later. 



Design in the Flower Garden. 



Most philosophers agree that there is evidence of design 



in the universe, but if their powers of research had to be 



concentrated on a search for the evidence of design in 



some flower gardens they would find none. This is of 



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