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early spring flowering bulbs and later with blooming 

 annuals or flowers of low growth. 



Plan D is an especially interesting plan for a for- 

 mal garden, designed without special reference to the 

 house, though it may be arranged quite as intimately 

 as any of the others. Its special claim to preference 

 lies in the fact that it may be extended from the 

 small quarter of a circle, designed to fit into an odd 

 bit of ground, to a half and even a whole circle, thus 

 making an imposing formal garden. Like all the 

 plans, consideration is given to the planting of low 

 forms of flowers in the immediate foreground, pansies 

 being especially suggested for the encircling outer 

 beds, though verbenas or nasturtiums may be used 

 where a more brilliant color scheme is desired. Where 

 the quarter or half circle is used, then tall perennials, 

 shrubs and the like may be employed in the rear and 

 in the straight beds which border the design; but 

 when the complete circle is adopted, then it will be 

 best to keep the height of the entire planting rather 

 uniform so as to have more the effect of carpet bed- 

 ding. It is charmingly adapted to a rose garden and^ 

 if desired, the central beds may be devoted to rose 

 trees rather than to the lower growths. 



For the practical care of a garden there is nothing 

 so good as clean, well-cared for gravel or cinder paths, 

 especially if some sort of curbing is used to confine the 

 beds. Bricks laid in the old-fashioned saw-tooth pat- 



