FLOWER GARDENS 69 



effectiveness of this garden, which should really have all 

 about it outside of the hedge a great grove of shade 

 trees. The same system may be modified for the smaller 

 village lot by keeping a grass plot in the center and run- 

 ning a flower border all around it alongside of the path. 

 It should always be kept in mind that it is a good 

 thing to distinguish a garden as a flower garden, and not 

 as a garden of clipped evergreens and statuary. Italian 

 gardens are a combination of terraces, lawns, fountains, 

 statues, alleys, and flights of steps, with trees, shrubs, 

 and flowers everywhere. They may be country places, 

 but they are not gardens in the good old homely English 

 sense, the sense in which we want them, if we will 

 consult our own natural and inherited common sense. 



