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being to avoid anything that will detract 

 from the breadth of effect, of which the 

 items just enumerated are those most likely to 

 beset the inexperienced designer. 



The practice of loading the grass with an 

 archipelago of small beds, cutting it up into a 

 fretwork design, is to be condemned for the 

 same reason. 



The placing of beds on grass calls for restraint 

 and discretion on the part of the gardener. 

 The artist "feels" where a bed or group of 

 beds could be placed with advantage to the 

 garden picture, because he has an eye trained 

 to proportion. Those who lack such training 

 must first realize their deficiency, and then 

 seek for guidance by studying elementary 

 principles, of which that applying to breadth 

 of effect, already sufficiently explained in these 

 pages, is one of the most important. 



The accompanying illustration (Fig. 28) 

 shows the correct way to correlate the bed 

 with the grass when the former has to fill a 

 projecting space. 



It is certainly better to err on the side of 

 having too few than too many detached beds. 



It will be useful here to accept my injunction 



