52 GARDEN PLANNING AND PLANTING 



FIG. 1 



Original Flower Beds. The uncommon is not always beauti- 

 ful, yet of the two flower beds, one perfect in design, one less 



artistic but quite 

 original, the latter will 

 be the one to add 

 laurels to the gar- 

 dener's crown ! It is 

 quite possible, how- 

 ever, to combine love- 

 liness and the unfa- 

 miliar, especially when 

 flowering and foliage 

 plants are the artist's 

 pigment. New shapes 

 for flower beds, new ways of filling old shapes, should be under 

 consideration in the spring season, in preparation for the bedding- 

 out work. 



A [double round bed is 

 shown by Fig. 1 ; it can be 

 made without the corner pieces 

 c, if wished, but when these 

 are planted only with Pyreth- 

 rum aureum or Yellow Stone- 

 crop they give the effect of 

 that golden frame that is 

 thought to be a fitting finish 

 to most works of art. If the 

 bed is in gravel, the frame may 

 be of a silver or variegated 

 dwarf plant preferably. If 

 the round A is of white blos- 

 som, say a white Viola, and 

 B of a pink one, such as 

 William Neil, a pink bedder 



or the Rose annual, Silene pendula compacta, the appear- 

 ance of one round overlapping the other will be attractive. This 

 is an easy bed to sow with annuals ; Eschscholtzia crocea fl. pi. and 

 white dwarf Candytuft would be pleasing, or dwarf blue Cornflower 

 and the lemon Eschscholtzia tenuifolia. 



A curious display was seen in a garden of the Midlands last year : 

 it consisted of a round bed sunk in a stone-paved courtyard, and filled 



FIG. 2 



