FORMAL FLOWER-BEDS 51 



With the exception of the heraldic and initial beds, we 

 hope that the designs so far submitted are of such simple 

 character that, given suitable surroundings, the severest 

 judge of garden formality would consider them allowable. 



The subject can hardly be quitted without allusion 

 being made to some others to which the stern critic might 



FIG. 44. 



possibly object. The only excuse for including them is 

 the somewhat romantic one that they have been handed 

 down for several generations. Each succeeding group of 

 boys and girls played " Blind man's buff" or "Flags" 

 round them, and thus grew fond of them. Do we not 

 know many similar to the fan-shaped Fig. 45, which the 

 garden designer has sometimes to tolerate ? Real pain 

 would be caused to some members of the family, however, 



