FORMAL FLOWER BEDS 



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glamour of history which the mere fact of having heraldry 

 carried out in flower-beds could not give. It is the 

 thought that a garden craftsman of King Charles's time 

 first cut and shaped them that lends interest. 



Another set of formal box-edged beds have preserved 

 their same outline since the early days of Queen Anne. 



Fig. 33. 



We trace them in old prints, and it is useful to note that, 

 as this parterre was intended to be viewed from a height, 

 the whole ground on which it is laid out slopes upward as 

 it retreats from the point of vantage. Thus we get the 

 advantage of raised beds round its outskirts, which enable 

 us to form the whole pattern. Some of these, if they had 

 been on level ground, would have been lost to view from 

 the raised shadow walk upon which we stand. The 



