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Lawn, Shrubbery, and Flower- Garden. 



Fig. 89. EUzabeilian Floiver-Garden in a sunk Panel. 



larly arranged to those in the bed/; those marked /i, with purple flowers; 

 the bed marked i, and those corresponding with it, may be planted with blue 

 flowers. The flowers in /, and the corresponding beds, may be orange; and 

 the four beds, of which one is marked m, may be yellow. Instead of having 

 the beds / planted with orange flowers, those corresponding with n may have 

 white flowers, and the orange may be limited to those corresponding with o. 



On the supposition that no fountain of any kind is to be placed in the 

 central basin, so as to form the main object when descending the steps at 

 both entrances, then the bed e, and the three beds which correspond to it, 

 may be occupied by pedestals and statues, which, with the statues in the 

 centres of the beds k, will give a running architectural foreground to the spec- 

 tator from the lower walk b, and a middle distance to the spectator from the 

 upper or terrace walk a, whose foreground, looking towards the garden, will 

 be the parapet crowned with vases e. 



This design may be varied in the following manner : instead of crowning 

 the supporting wall c with piers and vases, it need not be carried up higher 

 than the surface of the terrace, and may have a hedge of box planted over it, 

 which may be kept clipped so as to exhibit piers, either crowned with vases 

 of box, or with pyramids ; or the hedge may be cut so as simply to form a 



