FORMAL FLOWER BEDS 



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definite than initials or coats-of-arms is preferable Fig. 34 

 could be arranged. 



Fig- 35 is also good when it is seen from the upper 

 floor of a house. The windows of an old manor-house 

 look across the surrounding moat to the high grass bank, 

 all glittering with " St. Valentine's flower " (crocuses), 

 "bell blowes" (daffodils), or "Fair Maids of February" 

 (snowdrops). Above this bank runs a long terrace-walk 

 parallel with the moat, and above it again are formal 

 box-edged beds. They slope upwards until they reach 

 the high yew-hedge that conceals the kitchen garden. 

 Owing to the slope on which they stand, the outline of 

 these beds is well seen from the long panelled gallery of 

 the house. 



Large Parterre Gardens 



Up to now we have considered chiefly plans suitable 

 or medium-sized houses, where only one parterre garden 



is required, and that one has to 

 be near the house. 



For a very large place, where 

 there is room and ample scope 

 for many surprise gardens, it 

 would be charming to come sud- 

 denly upon one like the follow- 

 ing: A treillage gallery surrounds 

 handsome parterre - beds upon 

 three sides. Paths intersect 

 these beds, which are outlined 

 with box, having only one little design in the centre, 

 a circular space filled with ornamental flower-pots, 

 graduated in height to form a pattern. All round this 

 parterre, against the wooden gallery, are other and larger 

 ornamental pots. This is a garden of which one would 

 never tire, as the differences in height are numerous, and 

 thus monotony is impossible. 



Fig. 36. 



