FASHIONING THE GARDEN. 
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setting to bright displays of flowers of any kind, or of 
gravel, of broken flagstones, with dwarf plants growing in 
the crevices thereof. The design is suitable for an area 
of 40 by 40ft. Provision is made for arches to span four 
of the central beds. Around the boundary may be a hedge 
of Sweet Briar or Rosa rugosa, of Lavender, Dutch Box, 
or Yew, as the fancy dictates, simply be surrounded by 
the open lawn. 
Explanation — F shows the style of bamboo bridge to construct; G, method of 
growing Japanese trees in tubs ; H, the form of path to lay down in the moist parts of 
tha garden. 
In a design like this a pillar or a weeping rose could 
be planted in the centre of A, surrounded by half-stan- 
dards and dwarfs intermixed. In beds B half-standards 
and dwarfs would look well ; in beds E tall standards, 
with dwarf Polyanthas at the base ; in beds C, dwarf 
pillars and dwarfs ; in beds D, dwarfs ; and on the arches, 
G, climbers. Such an arangement would prove tmore effec- 
Fig. 14. DETAILS OF JAPANESE GARDEN. 
