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Fig. 52. — Pool in an Enclosed Garden. 



house is never so efFectively dispelled as by a row of 

 orange trees, or plants of clipped box, etc., which, 

 ranged against the wall, complete a most desirable 

 picture. In the same way any amount of colour 

 can be introduced on a terrace or along a walk. 

 The tub or box is a movable flower bed, and has 

 all the possibilities which its mobility gives it. And 

 because it is in itself a unit which can be multiplied 

 indefinitely, it is one of the most useful factors in 

 the formal garden. Placed at the angles of the 

 geometrical designs, emphasising the salient points, 

 relieving the squares of paving, it has the merit of 

 raising the flowers and foliage to a higher level, and 



