628 GEOMETRICAL FLOWER-GARDENS. 



Fig. 839. 



Fig. 840 is a parterre-garden, either den upon a large scale. The whole of the 



entire in itself or forming part of a gar- beds are intended for low-growing plants. 



Fig 84 0< The larger ones are surrounded with 

 . _ _ gravel-walks and box edgings. The mar- 



gin is to be edged with stone or slate, the 

 paths covered with white sand, and the 

 borders planted with plants not exceed- 

 ing 6 inches in height, and of the three 

 primary colours, red, blue, and yellow, 

 the latter occupying the diamond figures 

 along the centre. The same order of 

 arrangement may extend all round, or 

 each division may be varied by transpos- 

 ing the colours, or by employing plants of 

 different species, but of the same colours. 

 It is the taste of some to plant such par- 

 terres with dwarf box, heath, or similar 

 plants, setting them so close together as 

 to form compact dense masses in each, 

 and to keep them to an even height by 

 clipping them with the garden shears. 



