WHERE TO PLANT 



OPEN BEDS AND WALL BEDS 



Bed Space. — Long, continuous, balanced bloom with 

 perennials and annuals in small beds is a difficult 

 proposition, and it is best to plan a garden, if pos- 

 sible, with beds of rather large dimensions when plenty 

 of perennials are desired. An exception may be made 

 when a bed is against a wall, which can be planted 

 efifectively if only 4 feet deep, but a larger space is 

 preferable because easier to plant. 



The planting plans for the beds which are open, 

 on view from all sides, differ somewhat from those 

 for beds adjoining a boxmdary wall or hedge. 



For convenience' sake the beds that are open on all 

 sides will be called open beds, and the beds adjoin- 

 ing a boundary line or wall which forms a background, 

 WALL beds. 



THE open bed long AND NARROW 



In the OPEN BED, the centre space where the tall- 

 est plants grow might be considered as the back- 

 ground. Unless the bed is quite wide, as in Chart 

 Vn, the centre of any open bed should not contain 

 the very tallest plants, e. g., early Cosmos. 



When the open bed is much longer than wide, for 

 instance, 7 J^ by 28 feet (Chart IV), plant the middle 

 line with the moderately tall plants of four alternat- 



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