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and their minimum width may therefore be 

 fixed at two feet. 



Examples of groups of flower beds will be 

 found in plenty in the garden plans in a 

 later chapter. 



As regards the size of a bed, or of the com- 



Fig. 15. Relation between beds in a group 



ponents of a group, no precise limits can be 

 laid down. A bed may consist of a square 

 measuring two feet each way, if intended to 

 accommodate a pillar rose. On the other hand, 

 very large beds are sometimes introduced, when 

 they are in scale with their surroundings and 



