Designing a Garden for Bulbs 25 
ive page to look at, just for abstract 
beauty? Of course not — and of course 
you would know that something was 
wrong, with the printer or with me. 
Well, something is equally wrong when 
people spot flower beds about, here and 
there and anywhere upon a lawn — for 
flower beds are not as unlike punctua- 
tion marks as they may seem, when super- 
ficially considered. They arrest atten- 
tion, they mark a pause, they divide the 
whole into parts, they emphasize — indeed, 
how often do they not ejaculate? With- 
out the continuity that comes of a given 
design as a whole, therefore, wherein they 
take their places secondary to the design, 
how obviously out of place they are; how 
useless; how silly; how ugly — just as the 
periods and commas would be on the 
blank page. 
If the area of any given plot is limited 
to a degree that will not admit a garden, 
carefully designed and set apart, consider 
the entire place as a garden; let it in its 
