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CHAPTER III. 
LAYING- OUT A SQUARE GARDEN WITH A RUSTIC 
FENCE AND GATE. 
Suppose then, now, that we have each a 
garden, twelve steps long by about the same 
width in all, stretching from a shrubbery out into 
the lawn. The ground in front of the shrubs is 
capital for a kitchen garden, and on the slip of 
lawn we will lay out our flower beds. The 
question is, what shape are they to be made ? 
Because I know that a round bed or a diamond 
has a more grown-up look about it, and all sorts 
of little shapes and twists might really imitate a 
scrap of a great garden. Gravel walks, say some, 
and with little beds in between ; and that, no 
doubt, does very well indeed in places where 
grass will not grow, but where people can have 
grass, I beg to assure them they can have 
nothing better. 
Now for this piece of grass — how nice and 
smooth it is, and what heaps of those pretty three- 
