1 8 Making a Bulb Garden 
tion to my soul than a secluded garden 
of box-edge beds, exquisitely precise in 
form and line, filled with these blue 
blooded aristocrats — a garden exclu- 
sive and fragrant, with the pungent 
bitter of the box intensifying its sweet- 
ness. 
In planning a formal bulb garden, the 
same three things must guide in selecting 
species and varieties, that guide wherever 
flowers are used together — namely, the 
height, time of flowering and the color. 
And the formal design must of course 
have its proper center, however small and 
simple it may be. From some point it 
must develop symmetrically, along an 
axis — and from this point it should be 
approached and here the main entrance 
to it should be located. 
It may be laid down as an axiom that 
formal designs are never effective if the 
corresponding portions are carried out 
with plants that vary greatly in height. 
In order to preserve the symmetry and 
