40 GARDENS : THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



colour, and therefore the yew-hedge surrounded a blue, a 

 white, a red, and a yellow bed. This pattern can be 

 repeated either twice or four times, according to the shape 

 of the ground and the lines required by the scale of the 

 house. In the garden to which I allude there was a grass 

 margin on the inside of each hedge, and outside it were 

 paths. 



Parterre Beds 



The same style of gardening which we may designate 



as parterre bedding could be adopted in Fig. 29, • but 



perhaps in the central bed it 

 would look better to have a mul^ 

 berry-tree, or if more formality 

 be necessary, either a bay-tree 

 in a handsome orange-pot or a 

 statue. 



Fig. 30 also lends itself to 

 similar treatment, but the beds 

 having such distinctly formal out- 

 lines should not be much raised. 



Height in this garden would be given by four bay-trees 



in tubs, standing where the four dots are. It would 



look best if each bed had a colour 



and flower of its own — perhaps 



pentstemons in one ; in another, 



phloxes. 



Fig. 31 is very similar; but 



some of the beds are larger, and 



so tall plants, such as hollyhocks 



and sunflowers, would look well 



in them. 



Fig. 32 is again like the others, 



but with a small shade of difference, which may render 



it more suitable to one house than to another. Here 



Fig. 29. 



Fig. 30. 



