Formal Gardening 
rectangular grounds thus turned into flower- 
gardens would often be more appropriate to 
their situation than even the best attempts 
at naturalistic 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 without 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 
yews 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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