20 Making a Bulb Garden 
continuity of the whole, vertical propor- 
tions must correspond as well as the hori- 
zontal. Take, for example, the simplest 
form — a square divided into four tri- 
angular corner plots by a walk running 
in to a grass plot at the center from 
each of the four sides. If the first plot 
on the right is planted with specimens 
that reach a height of two feet, while the 
corresponding plot on the opposite side 
of the axis— otherwise on the left — is filled 
with growth that reaches a height of four 
feet, the symmetry is completely de- 
stroyed and with it the design too, to 
all practical purposes. But right and 
left plots nearest at hand may contain 
tall-growing plants and the two plots 
beyond may be filled with lower-growing 
ones without impairing the effect. It is 
only on either side of the main axis that 
there must be corresponding proportion, 
ordinarily; but it is undoubtedly always 
better to maintain a fair measure of it 
throughout a design. 
