Formation of a Flower Garden 



to the person conceiving it. When I had a cruder idea 

 of what qualities should go towards the make-up of a flower 

 garden, I spent several hours in forming this plan, but I 

 tremble to think of the ridicule which would be hurled at 

 me were I ever to put the design into practice. Personally 



Design. 



FIG. 13. 

 Irregular. 



I should be inclined to call on some neighbouring mountain 

 to cover me. There is too much symmetry, too much 

 regularity, and altogether such a plan is an outrage on 

 Nature. In the garden especially, Nature must be supreme. 

 Art may enter and beautify, but it must not usurp the 

 Queendom. The beds themselves may conform to the 

 run of the line or the sweep of the compass, but the 

 geometrical relations of one bed to another should not be 

 so obvious as in the case under discussion. A better 



