2 6 Making a Bulb Garden 
entirety be the design. Utilize the house 
and whatever other buildings there may 
be, the trees, the vegetable garden, the 
walks and drives, as motifs, and intro- 
duce the flowers in clumps and bands as 
adjuncts to these. A long, straight bor- 
der along the sunny boundary, broken 
once perhaps by a seat, or some feature of 
interest in itself, is always in good taste, 
and always insures the widest effect for 
every flower that blooms in it. 
The typical suburban place indeed 
offers very little opportunity for placing 
flowers in any other way — but however 
restricted space may be, and even where 
there is no sunny boundary, there are 
sure to be walks which may be “bor- 
dered.” Keep away from the house, 
however, with everything excepting vines, 
and now and then a shrub or shrubbery 
group; not many flowers are suitable for 
a position immediately against founda- 
tions, where eaves either drip or keep rain 
away entirely. Then too there is no 
