Formal Gardening 



rectangular grounds thus turned into flower- 

 gardens would often be more appropriate to 

 their situation than even the best attempts 

 at naturahstic gardening on a tiny scale ; 

 and they would also give more delight to 

 their owners, if any true love for flowers re- 

 sides in their breasts. Where one has not 

 room for a genuine landscape - picture, or 

 where such a picture does not harmonize 

 with what lies around it, are we not foolish 

 to neglect the beauty which artistic arrange- 

 ments of flowers alone can give ? 



Even w^ithout flowers or spreading shrubs 

 a very small bit of ground can be made at- 

 tractive. Nothing is prettier, when its sur- 

 roundings justify it, than a close, graceful 

 pattern wrought in lines of box or some sim- 

 ilar plant, with a stretch of gravel for a 

 background, and some accentuation in the 

 way of formally shaped shrubs like Irish 

 yev/s and pyramidal junipers. And, as I 

 have said before, flower-gardens and places 

 for collections of specimen plants will some- 

 times be desired. If the main grounds are 

 naturalistically arranged, they should be 

 put where they will not injure the general 



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