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geometrical beds should appear as stiff when planted in 

 color as the lines indicate on paper. In nature the har- 

 mony of colors and array of plants will be the attraction, 

 and the orderly arrangement of growing spaces merely 

 an item of convenience. 



Richard Jefferies says that birds love to build in the 

 box and the yew, but they detest vacant, draughty spaces 

 underneath, and avoid spindly laurels and rhododendrons. 

 "The common hawthorn hedge around a country garden 

 shall contain three times as many nests, and shall be 

 visited by five times as many birds as the foreign ever- 

 greens, so costly to rear and so sure to be killed by the 

 first old-fashioned frost." 



The cedar walks, the wilderness, and the maze and 

 avenues familiar in old English gardens contributed to 

 delightful ideas of seclusion. There should be shaded 

 ways for getting about, and cool retreats for hot days. 

 As Bacon has said, one ought not to "buy the shade by 

 going into the sun" when passing from one section to 

 another. 



The flower border, usually of the spring bulbs which 

 are succeeded by the perennials, close around the founda- 

 tions of a house, relieves that bare appearance so notice- 

 able when the walls spring directly from the ground. 

 This flower border should contain a succession of plants 

 to keep blossoms until frost, and the plan should be 

 continued in flower borders at the foot of shrubbery, 



