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which formally planted borders have 

 a good effect, where, for instance, 

 terraces and walks are also of formal 

 style, or where there is already a 

 large herbaceous border. Occasion- 

 ally the owner of a small garden may 

 have a special taste for geometrical 

 designs carried out in plants, and if 

 so, let him carry out his hobby. Cor- 

 rect marking out is the first neces- 

 sity ; small, white pegs of wood are 

 best to use, and will serve their pur- 

 pose over and over again. It is an 

 admirable plan to peg out the design 

 along the whole border before put- 

 ting in any plants, then the latter 

 can be got into place directly they 

 arrive. The design in Fig. 1 (p. 94) is 

 fit for a collection of Pyrethrums and 

 Violas, Phloxes and Chrysanthemum 

 maximum : carmine single Pyre- 

 thrums at A, deep rose at B, pale rose 

 at c, white Chrysanthemum maximum 

 at D, white Phloxes at E, and white 

 Linaria repens alba at F. The last 

 named is a delightful little perennial 

 that becomes smothered with white, 

 yellow-blotched blossoms. The carpet 

 for all can be yellow or mauve, blue 

 or purple Violas. 



Larkspurs (Delphinium) look at- 

 tractive planted in a single row to 

 form a scroll, such as that shown 

 by A in design Fig. 2 ; the old- 

 fashioned Delphinium formosum, 

 which grows only 3 ft. high, is most 

 suitable, as the pattern is shown off 

 better than by a 6-ft high, variety. 



yellow and white or yellow and bronze German Iris in late flower- 

 ing sorts ; the smaller dot plants c should be Anchusa semper- 

 virens, a lovely pale blue Alkanet only 18 inches high; the 



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