Designing a Garden for Bulbs 23 
teries and railroad stations — are, of 
course, of all spots the stiffest and most 
formal; consequently they demand an ex- 
ceedingly formal and ceremonial treat- 
ment. That a round, smooth mound, 
bristling with pink hyacinths which circle 
around a mass of white hyacinths, and 
are in turn encircled by a mass of blue, 
the whole belted with a deeper pink per- 
haps, is not the ideal, would seem to be a 
rather obvious fact; but even this ar- 
rangement brings color and life when 
both are eagerly craved. And in the 
places mentioned it is difficult to do any- 
thing better, because of the publicity ; 
moreover if something different were un- 
dertaken, a less pleasing result might 
follow. So it may be discreet to let well 
enough alone. 
But anywhere else there is not the 
ghost of an excuse for fancy beds, nor 
for bulbs “bedded out.” Do not confuse 
the plots that go to make up a garden, 
with the sort of thing I am condemning 
