18 GARDEN DESIGN 



be advantageously used in place of clipped 

 shrubs. A combination of the standard form 

 and clipping gives the finest effects. Any one 

 who has seen a design picked out by standard 

 Portugal laurels, 10 ft. high, stems nearly a foot 

 through, and with clipped heads 8 ft. across, 

 will not readily condemn trained trees. For 

 small gardens standard golden privets are parti- 

 cularly charming. Though trained trees are em- 

 inently the right thing among geometrically laid 

 walks, too much insistence cannot be laid on 

 the fact that such planning does not exclude 

 natural planting. The mixed herbaceous bed is 

 more often than not bordered by a straight walk, 

 and yet the plants are not arranged in rows. The 

 charm of the mixed herbaceous border, so often 

 seen running through the centre of a kitchen 

 garden, is largely due to the contrast between 

 its luxuriant masses, and the neat straight paths, 

 the trained espalier fruit, and the orderly ranks 

 of vegetables. The drawing on page 247 is of a 

 formal garden where the planting is in mixed 

 masses. 



There is no doubt that planting of the bedding- 

 out type accentuates a design by leaving the eye 

 undistracted by varied colours and heights. But 

 the design may not be of paramount importance 

 and, indeed, where it was, coloured earths and 

 stones were employed instead of plants. Her- 

 baceous stuff may be fitly used in the stiffest design, 



