54 GARDEN PLANNING AND PLANTING 



peacock Poppies and crimson scarlet Phlox Drummondi, or in shade, 

 Tobacco Plants and yellow Calceolarias. 



The end of a lawn is often the site for a wide border bed of 

 straightest formation ; the result is much better when the border 

 is cut in two and a grass walk left between them, an arch being put 

 up to span this. Nor is there any reason why the beds should be 

 mere oblongs ; Fig. 4 gives a shape for each, and the grass path 

 between could be at either end, D or E, as preferred. The centre 

 oval A requires filling in some bold way ; my own choice would be 

 Liliums, then a mixture of beautiful Asters could appear at B, and 

 Stocks at c, but the Asters should all be dwarf : A, B, and c 

 respectively might be foliage bedding plants, crimson double 



FIG. 5 



Begonias, and rose Begonia semperflorens, or yellow Pompon Dahlias, 

 white Stocks, and orange-gold Violas, or mauve Michaelmas Daisies, 

 yellow dwarf early Chrysanthemums, and purple Violas. 



Simplest beds are often best, and the shape of Fig. 5 leaves 

 little to be desired. It would look delightful sown with Shirley 

 Poppies, of which the dwarf form is the most suitable. Nemesia 

 strumosa Suttoni, mixed Pansies, Carnations, Mignonette, are other 

 suggestions. 



Half-Moon Flower Beds, The gracefulness of half-moon- 

 shaped beds makes them especially valuable for lawn ornament, 

 and they can be well placed springing out of the corners of grass 

 plots large or small : two beds with the points opposite one 

 another, only a narrow space being left for traversing between, 

 can occupy the centre of a lawn or gravel square, with a rose 

 pillar, or sundial, in the middle. The shape is easy to cut, simple 

 to fill effectively, and offers no obstacle t^ the working of the lawn 

 mower or the setting of a tile edge. 



