--HE DGE 



. GRASS. 



FLOWER GARDENS, BEDS AND BORDERS. 



In this instance the garden is surrounded by high yew hedges, the growth of many 

 years, and trimmed to a number of quaint shapes. The beds are edged with box, and 

 the interspaces gravelled ; but a design of this kind can often be more economically and 

 effectually treated as an enclosed grass lawn with the beds cut out of the turf. 



Gardens are seldom devoted entirely 

 to carnations, but, in favourable districts, 

 a part of the garden might very suitably 

 be given to them. One of the best 

 arrangements of this kind which the 

 writer has seen was a carnation walk, 

 square beds, each accommodating twenty 

 plants, being formed on either side of 

 the walk, there being long borders at 

 the back, which are planted with other 

 florist's flowers, such as violas, pansies, 

 pinks, phloxes, and large masses of the 

 stronger-growing border carnations, the 

 whole being arranged as shown in the sketch (111. No. 139). This garden is about a 

 hundred yards from the house, and has the advantage of a fine background on either 

 side of native silver birches and Scotch firs, with spaces cleared and planted with 

 rhododendrons. 



/H E DO E . 

 FIG. 139. A CARNATION WALK. 





FIG. 140. THE CARNATION GARDEN, MADRESFIELD COURT. 



During the later Victorian period gardens were not only devoted to one or two 

 flowers, but also entirely to the cultivation of hard-wooded plants such as ericas, 

 dabeoceas, alpine rhododendrons, azaleas, kalmias, sedums and andromedas. Some of these 



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