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walls give the same result. When the object of 

 taking in more ground is to add something of a 

 different character, for example a rose garden, the 

 latter should not occupy the whole of the addition, 

 but sufficient margin should be left to permit of a 

 good connexion being made with the old part. 

 An outlying piece of park with a pond, or a dell 

 suitable for a rock garden, can be linked to the 

 existing garden by a shrubbery walk which opens 

 out at the end to any size required. This is a 

 better way than taking in a large plot of land, 

 which may be only an embarrassment, for the sake 

 of one particular feature in it. 



A formal garden can be inserted in one of the 

 landscape style by planting a hedge to screen it 

 from its incongruous surroundings. An irregular 

 piece surrounded by shrubberies can be laid out 

 with a formal centre by running a wide grass 

 path round it, and then making a flower bed to 

 take herbaceous stuff, which conforms on one 

 side to the shape of the grass path, and on the 

 other to any geometrical shape required ; this side 

 being planted with a hedge. It is of no con- 

 sequence that the flower bed will be very uneven 

 in width for its unevenness will show only from 

 the grass side which belongs to the irregular style 

 of the rest of the garden. Entrances through it can 

 be made where convenient, and within, when the 

 hedge is grown, a plot with simple boundary 

 lines is all that will be evident. See Diagram 91, 



