BEDS OF VARIOUS SHAPE 



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FIG. 6 



Simplicity of outline is exhibited again by Fig. 7, which is just 

 ,n improvement upon a square. Gardeners who have square beds 

 >f which they are tired should alter 

 hem ; the easiest change is to cut off 

 he corners, making them oblique ; 

 kit the next change, shown here, is 



add points to the centre of four 

 ides. Directly this has been done 

 he square bed is a thing of the past. 

 V little consideration of other methods 

 if altering squares may not be out of 

 tface here ; if, instead of the points, 

 lalf circles had been added to the 

 our sides, the bed would have be- 

 :ome another shape altogether. If 

 he points, instead of being made 



utside the outline, had been turned inwards, another design would 

 lave resulted. Eight points would have surrounded the bed had 

 he shape been as 

 n Fig. 7, but with 

 .he corners extend- 

 ed in a square. 

 ,xtra narrow beds 

 ire sometimes the 

 mly ones that can 

 DC cut in strips of 

 ,urf or spare spaces 

 >f gravel, and Fig. 



1 shows a shape that 

 ooks better than 

 n oblong ; it can 



equally well be 

 Wanted with low 

 growers or with 

 ;aller ones. 



The corners of 

 awns are wasted 



unless beds are FIG 7 



nade in them, or 



pillar Roses, clumps of grass, specimen trees, shrubs, giant plants, 

 rockeries, urns, or mounds fill them. Now there are some beds that 



