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plot is much more effective than a central 

 bed. 



Whilst referring to the exclusion of inartistic 

 objects, I may add to the list some minor eye- 

 sores, which are affected by not a few of our 

 gardeners, who seem to have learnt horticul- 

 ture in the same school as a certain heroine of 

 nursery rhyme, to wit — 



Mary, Mary, 

 Quite contrary. 



" Cowslips all of a row " may not be altogether 

 an outrage (though I prefer them grouped), 

 but this mythical Mary showed a sadly de- 

 praved taste in admitting to her horticultural 

 preserves such incongruous items as " silver 

 bells and cockle shells." 



Therefore away to the dustbin with your 

 escallop shells, alabaster lumps, nuggets bf glass 

 and minerals. 



Your garden is not to be a museum of 

 curiosities or natural history specimens. 



Also beware of paint, crude and vicious in 

 colour. Your trellis must be painted, or it 



