44 PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 



and bringing together, in one single spot, all the flowet 

 beds generally scattered over the lawn, on a large place. 

 For privacy, it is surrounded by a belt of flowering shrubs. 

 Two principal flower beds, at 1 and 2, are intended to 

 be surrounded by a small evergreen border, kept for itself, 



Fig. 8. FLOWEB BEDS AT THK JUNCTION OF WALKS. (&3B page 46.) 



and not to be considered as an edging ; small edging-box 

 might answer best. 



At 3, there are recesses for statuary, behind which the 

 foliage ought to be of the darkest kind, to contrast with 

 the white statuary, and mak-e that conspicuous. 



At 4, similar recesses for seats of heavy timber* 



