CHAPTER VII 
the mixed border ( continued ) 
For large gardens — Arrangement of plants — Tending to 
repetition— Danger of allowing the coarser plants 
to overgrow the choice specimens — Grouping, and 
lists of plants for foreground, middle distance, and 
background. 
The arrangement of the large herbaceous 
border, where you get into your two or three 
hundred feet lengths at once, is very much 
more difficult, even in proportion, than the 
arrangement of a small one. 
It is so difficult not to get it spotty on the 
one hand and too regular on the other ; so 
difficult to have the right effect, when break- 
ing into a certain level of planting with a 
bolder clump of some taller plant, so that it 
may run from its proper place in the back- 
ground right through to the foreground 
without appearing studied. To make Nature 
subservient to art, and yet to completely 
