PLANTING 



gotten, while the crimson brown paeony shoots 

 give a warm setting. The paeonies are in blocks 

 of six, repeated on each side of the path, but other- 

 wise all different, in the choicest garden varieties, 

 rose, pink and white. When they are out, looked 

 at from one end, the border appears to be entirely 

 paeonies. A tree paeony stands at the apex of 

 each triangular group. Similarly when the mont- 

 bretias are out the lengthways view of the border 

 looks all montbretia and michaelmas daisy. 



The foregoing examples give some idea how 

 the effect of bedding out may be obtained by care- 

 ful permanent planting. I have planned large 

 formal designs on lawns, planted in massed her- 

 baceous stuff on the same principle, and the result 

 was almost as though regular bedding had been 

 done. 



THE PREPARATION OF PLANTING 

 PLANS 



PLANS of planting can seldom be on the same 

 sheet as the general design of a garden. Speci- 

 men trees can be named thereon, but a large 

 scale is necessary for herbaceous and shrubbery 

 beds. Sectional paper is valuable for this purpose, 

 and a scale of 4 or 5 ft. to the inch must be used if 

 names are to be written in, which is far less 

 trouble in the end than entering numbers and pre- 



