24 Making a Bulb Garden 
in this wholesale fashion, however; for 
these garden plots or beds are of course 
only units in a design and as such have 
every reason for being. It is the de- 
tached triangles, and stars, and crescents, 
and hearts, and anchors, dropped into the 
midst of otherwise good lawns, that come 
under the ban. The eradication of the 
“bed” idea from the gardener’s mind is 
perhaps the one consummation most de- 
voutly to be wished. For this is a treat- 
ment of plants that is contrary to every 
principle of good taste as well as con- 
trary to Nature ; and besides all this, it is 
a violation of every rule of harmony and 
composition. 
Suppose, for example, you were to find 
a page in this book with no words upon it, 
but with a solitary period in the center, 
an exclamation point some distance off, 
and perhaps the question-mark, colon and 
rest of their kind, scattered around hit- 
or-miss ; would it be possible to make any- 
thing of such? Or would it be an attract- 
