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at their best. The flower borders are carefully considered for colour arrangement ; the 

 long green walk has a massing of strong reds and yellows in the middle of the length, 

 with the ends cooler coloured, in the way that seems to make the most satisfactory colour 

 picture. A shorter upper double border, called the west walk, is mostly of yellows, 

 with tender and brilliant blue (Fig. 63). These colour-schemes are not only highly satis- 

 factory in themselves, but they serve to give individuality and a quality of dignity and 

 distinction to various portions of a garden. Offering to the eye one clear picture at a 

 time, they rescue the beholder from the distracting impression of general muddle and 

 want of distinct intention that is so frequent in gardens and so wasteful — wasteful 

 because a place may be full of fine plants, grandly grown, but if they are mixed up 

 without thought or definite scheme they only produce an unsatisfactory effect, instead 

 of composing together into a harmonious picture. 



Although the view at Highmount is very extensive, it is from the pictorial point 

 of view not as beautiful as it might be, and as it is confidently hoped it will be in a 

 few years' time. The material is there for at least half-a-dozen beautiful scenes, 

 but, just as a painted picture is comparatively of little effect without its frame, so in 

 a much greater degree is the outdoor picture. Everyone has noticed how, coming 

 suddenly on some perhaps quite tame garden scene through a doorway, it seems to 

 be invested with a strange kind of beauty. So, in the case of a view that is over- 

 panoramic, we plant so as to cut it up and frame it in different directions. A glance 

 at the general plan (Fig. 56) will show how this is provided for, the more deeply- 

 shaded masses of shrubs and trees comprising such as will rise high enough to come 

 well above the horizon line and make of each opening a definite picture. In the 

 plan the chief points of view so separated are shown by the feathered arrows 



