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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
tulips. Another year these beds will have lilac 
primroses, aubrietia, and pansies for their spring 
dresses. 
Should the garden be square, make a narrow 
oblong at one side divided off by either a hedge 
or a trellis with arches. Plant the wall on the 
side opposite the hedge or trellis right out with 
flowering almonds, peaches, and cherries. Have 
full herbaceous borders within the oblong and a 
miniature orchard on the other side of the hedge. 
It does not seem possible to treat of herbaceous 
borders, particularly for the smaller garden, 
without taking the rest of it into consideration. 
When you live in a large place with any 
number of men to keep it up, the choice is 
naturally not so limited. There is generally to 
be found some long gravel path, bordered on 
one side by a shrubbery and on the other by 
lawn, where enough can be cut out each side 
to provide for a i o- or even 1 5-foot border. 
A winding walk is sometimes successful, and 
a good example is seen at Harlow Hall, Essex, 
where the walk from the house to the kitchen 
garden curves partly round the house, and 
where there is a thick clipped hedge on each 
side, and a background of such climbers as 
honeysuckles, ceanothus, and clematis on poles 
in front of it — the whole being from 30 to 
