52 GARDENS : THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



were it done away with. Therefore, simply because of 

 old associations, it must be kept. Are there not some- 

 times "true lovers' knots," like Fig. 46, which means not 



Fig. 45. 



a mere flower-bed, but that two young people found, 

 as they walked by, that " love-in-a-mist " was the blue 

 of heaven, and that " loving-idols," or "cull-me-to-you," 

 were the prettiest names for heartsease ? Therefore, 



let the head-gardener, 

 with all his merry 

 men, arrayed in dark- 

 blue serge aprons, 

 the emblems since 

 many bygone years 

 of garden craft, come 

 forth and plant their 

 treasured heirloom 

 beds. They will 

 place eight standard 

 fuchsias in them, and neatly tie their stems with black 

 tape to round and shiny one-inch bamboo canes. Out of 

 innumerable small pots they will noiselessly take pink 

 begonias and strew these as a carpet beneath the fuchsias. 

 With an edging of red, yellow, and dark-brown foliage 

 each bed will be completed. Thus, to the great relief of 



Fig. 46. 

 A, Statue ; 6, tall flowers. 



