Designing a Garden for Bulbs 21 
A garden may be symmetrical horti- 
culturally as well as in its design, with 
very excellent results— that is, it may 
have its corresponding beds planted with 
the same things ; but this is not necessary 
if the matter of height is carefully 
watched. Form rather than color is the 
important thing. 
One very practical plea for sovereignty 
which the limited and formal garden has 
always made to my mind, is its early 
springtime condition compared to the un- 
inhabitableness of the rest of outdoors 
generally. When everything else is mud 
and dreary winter brown, with even the 
most favored border not a particularly 
inviting place to walk, the garden within 
its enclosing walls of privet or hemlock, 
or perhaps just bare branched shrubs, 
as the case may be, is still a garden; and 
the earliest snowdrop or crocus finds a 
tidy world awaiting it instead of a sloppy, 
disorderly one. Use masses naturally 
too, of course, wherever they may go; 
