256 Landscape Gardening 



regular plan of arrangement will be in all respects the best. 

 The walks should be straight and at right angles and the 

 beds and masses be symmetrical and well balanced. A walk 

 on either side of such a garden or one down the center will 

 be preferable to having a walk on only one side. And effect 

 may be aimed at in the way of lines or rows of beds and plants 

 with a summer house, a small greenhouse, a vase, a cluster 

 of shrubs, or other pleasing object to terminate the little 

 avenue thus created. 



As much of open lawn as is practicable and a predomi- 

 nance of evergreens will be desirable for such gardens, since 

 these will be agreeable at all seasons of the year. And 

 extreme smoothness and neatness of finish and of keeping 

 are essential. The beds introduced should be scrupulously 

 simple in form and arrangement. 



