140 LAWNS 



feature of our gardens. In many places 

 where there are parallel borders, separated 

 by only a few feet, the greatest artistic effect, 

 the more reposeful feeling, and certainly the 

 most natural setting and environment for the 

 plants of the border will be made by filling 

 in the intervening space with grass rather 

 than with gravel. These grass walks are 

 something more than extensions of the lawn 

 idea. They unite the different masses of 

 plantings and bring them in as integral parts 

 of the garden itself. Abrupt changes from 

 one style of garden to another should be 

 avoided if possible. 



MAKING FLOWER BEDS 



Where flower beds are to be placed on the 

 lawn it is far better to treat the whole surface 

 in the first place as one unbroken grass area, 

 cutting in the beds later, when the grass has 

 become thoroughly established. The final 

 result is better because the cut edges will be 

 more sharply defined, and it is far easier, in 

 the first place, to make an unbroken stretch of 

 lawn than it is to work in and out between and 

 around more or less complicated bed outlines. 



