2o8 Garden Ardiitcctiire, and Hints on Landscape Gardening. 



The following diagrams, i to 12, will show the application of the prin- 

 ciple of unity, or breadth, to garden compositions : — 



Fig. I. 



In Fig. I, we have a fair expression of unity. The grass in centre is bor- 

 dered by trees or shrubs. But the grass-flat is the feature to which the walks 

 at the sides are entirely subordinate ; and whether this grass-flat be cut 

 into beds, or whether the flat is composed entirely of gravel and beds, is 

 immaterial. 





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Fig. 2. 



Fig. 2 expresses unit)', perhaps, more plainly than Fig. i. The centre 

 consists of a path bordered by turf, flowers, shrubs, or trees. 



Fig. 3 will be seen, on examination, to be identical in principle with 

 Figs. I and 2 ; that is to say, the garden in Fig. 3 is not in two halves nor 

 in four quarters, but one central whole, bounded by an enclosing border 

 of flowers, shrubs, or trees. 



