Undesirable Triangles 
same time devise some means of introducing enough 
grass to soften the effects of the stone. In this design 
it could have been done quite successfully by paving 
the path between the Rose-beds and the herbaceous 
borders, and along the northern end, leaving the 
remainder in grass. The tennis-lawn is well placed, 
and there could have been no better position 
allotted for the rock garden than in the angle 
at the entreme southern end. The views from 
the windows are generally carefully studied, although 
I might point out that providing window pic- 
tures does not always mean creating a view down a 
straight path. The hardy plant border, with flower- 
ing shrubs at intervals, offers a fine perspective from 
either end. The circle terminating the pergola might 
have been better arranged, and I hardly think it was 
necessary to make a sort of cross of this path. The 
little dead ends of path sticking into the border would 
make odd and ugly little angles that, however success- 
fully they might be planted, would remain—ugly. The 
pergola here is as well placed as a pergola can be in 
such a garden. The design fails, however, in the 
division of the triangular plot into its component parts, 
beds, borders, etc., in that it divides one large triangle 
into a number of smaller ones. Of all the shapes that 
can be given to flower beds, borders, or any other 
planting area the triangle is the worst. Its acute 
angles are never tidy, and the tapering points are never 
properly filled with plants. Either the plants that are 
placed therein ramble in an untidy fashion over the 
paths, because the beds are too narrow at that par- 
ticular point to contain them, or to avoid this the points 
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