A Flower Garden Parterre 
of imagination displayed in the lines of the path I 
should lay the blame on the architect, who placed the 
entrance-gate at the nearest possible point to the front 
door, perhaps not a bad fault either. 
On entering the gate Miss Brown has arranged an 
attractive perspective towards the southern end by 
introducing a path that eventually leads naturally to 
the other side of the house, and is planted on one side 
by a very serviceable herbaceous border, opposite 
which is the kitchen garden, admirably arranged for 
convenience to the kitchen. An edging of some sort 
to the vegetable plot is suggested in the plan, and | 
think this could be of nothing better than Lavender. 
This would serve to give balance to the view, and form 
altogether a pretty picture from a point just inside the 
entrance-gate. 
The placing of the little frame yard in'such a posi- 
tion that it is out of sight from every point in the 
garden that matters, and the suggestion for screening 
it from view by a short length of hedge, is to be com- 
mended as one of those happy thoughts that appear 
to be so unimportant in practice, but which often make 
or mar a small garden scheme. Then the view from 
the eastern dining-room window, down the path 
between fruit-trees (dwarf or bush fruit-trees would be 
best here) towards the herbaceous border, would be 
quite pleasant. That from the southern window is 
not quite so happy, and I think some more interesting 
termination than a blank hedge could have been devised 
here. Of course, one is restricted by circumstances, 
and in this case the view was subordinated to the 
development of the flower garden parterre, quite an 
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