Formal Gardening 
shaped bed of coleus — would look extremely 
well if consistently planted with flowers. 
And when the old reservoir on Fifth Avenue 
is removed, we should have in its place, not 
a mere extension of Bryant Park, but a 
beautiful big garden, with formal avenues 
of trees to give shade, a balustraded walk 
around its confines, a large ornamental 
fountain, and a rich array of flower-beds, 
charmingly changing their aspect as the 
months advance, and telling to those who 
never leave the streets how, in the country, 
Flora is marshalling “ the procession of the 
flowers.” 
There can be no American city where 
spots similar to these do not actually cry 
aloud for formal treatment of some sort. 
And there are one or two American cities 
where the charm of formal or semi -formal 
arrangements has already been shown. In 
Baltimore, for instance, when one stands in 
Mount Vernon Place, or on the adjacent 
wide sloping street where central plantations 
are enlivened by the perpetual sound of fall- 
ing water, one can hardly believe he is in 
our crude young America, so finished and 
