72 THE BOOK OF TOPIARY 
glass structures are altogether out of place in the 
Topiary garden. But provision- should be made for 
them in some way or other, and as a rule some place 
can be found for the erection of a few houses without 
clashing with the other features of the garden. 
If the garden has been laid out on a large scale, and 
contains a quantity of large beds, as regards the work 
of arranging and deciding what each bed is to be planted 
with, the person who is responsible will have to be 
guided by circumstances to a certain extent according 
to the accommodation that is already at hand, or is to 
be provided for the raising of bedding plants. 
In every garden, and especially inthe Topiary garden, 
the beds should be so arranged that they will yield as 
far as possible a continual show of bloom for as many 
months of the year as flowers will bloom in the garden. 
A continual supply of bloom for the longest possible 
time is the principal object to be aimed at. Of course in 
the arrangement of the beds it will be necessary to plant 
some of them with herbaceous plants; others may be 
planted with roses; as both roses and herbaceous plants 
look well in any garden. But in the using of perennial 
plants of any kind, I would strongly recommend that 
they should be planted more in the background and in 
large borders, instead of in the more important beds in 
the garden. These last should be reserved for bedding 
plants, as no matter whether roses, or any other kind 
of plants, be used, the same brilliant and desirable effect 
can never be obtained as is to be had from the more 
showy and more easily massed bedding plants. In the 
planting of herbaceous or any variety of plants, excep- 
tional care should be taken to keep the plants far enough 
away from the trees, so as to avoid all injurious effects 
from the summer’s growth coming in contact with 
the yews. If the practice of planting close up to the 
trees is followed, on purpose to avoid bare patches in 
