PLANTING 



in others. A border of pinks or similar edging 

 can be added to the front. If there is a grass verge, 

 another line may be redundant, but a line of some 

 sort has value in giving an appearance of length. 

 The gaps caused by the dying down of bulbs, the 

 death of biennials and so forth, can be made good 

 by annuals. Anything of the nature of a bedding 

 plant ought never to be used as a stop gap. 



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DIAGRAM 79. 



The massed stateliness of formal bedding may 

 be reproduced in herbaceous stuff, and large beds 

 amongst formal surroundings can be most effec- 

 tively so planted. Diagrams 79 and 80 show two 

 examples. Only half the schemes are shown, as on 

 the other side of the path they are exactly dupli- 

 cated. The first is backed by clipped hedges, and 

 terminated at one end by a clipped yew arch, 

 spanning both borders and path. The display 



