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GEOMETRICAL FLOWER-GARDENS. 



three larger divisions of fig. 844 were the 

 same ; the walks otherwise (figs. 844 and 

 845) were of gravel with box edgings. In 

 fig. 843 a gravel-walk surrounded the 

 whole, enclosing between it and the next a 



Fig. 843. 



series of flower-beds of the same width as 

 the walks. The interior of the space was 

 divided into four equal parts by gravel 

 walks, but which, instead of intersecting 

 each other at the centre, diverged into a 

 circle, leaving a circular bed for flowers. 

 In fi^. 844 a narrow border formed the 



Fig. 844. 



circumference, within which was a gravel 

 walk parallel to it and to a series of beds 

 which margined all the walks in the 

 piece, leaving the three larger spaces 

 covered with turf. Gravel walks were 

 disposed of here as in fig. 843, but within 

 the centre circular walk was a circular 



border, and within that a circular plot of 

 grass. All the walks in this figure were 

 verged with turf edgings, and the borders 

 in all the three examples planted or sown 

 with low-growing bright- coloured plants. 

 In fig. 845, which is a square form, a mar- 

 ginal flower-border surrounded the whole, 



Fig. 845. 

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within which a gravel-walk, communi- 

 cating with the other walks which were 

 of grass, resolved the interior into four 

 equal-sized figures. 



Amongst the furnishings of a geo- 

 metrical garden are elevated borders or 

 baskets of flowers, formed of low margins 

 a foot or 18 inches high. These are usually 

 of polished stone, and often richly carved ; 

 and, as substitutes, very elegant ones of 

 artificial stone, in Austin and Seeley's 

 manner, are employed. These are called 

 porte-fleurs, and are placed on grass and 

 sometimes on gravel, and of themselves 

 form very attractive objects, more espe- 

 cially when filled with plants either 

 planted out in them, or, if grown in pots, 

 plunged in them, and the surface covered 

 with moss. Fig. 846 is the Pantheon 



Fig. 846. 



basin, which has been used for this pur- 

 pose for several years in the grounds of 



