LAWNS AND THEIR EMBELLISHMENT 
19 
The Formal and the Picturesque 
The illustration below presents a very 
happy combination of formal grounds and 
picturesque plantations of shrubbery and trees. 
The flower beds would be effective planted 
with bright scarlet Geraniums, bordered with 
the white -leaved Centaurea gymnocarpa. The 
bed at the base of the statue is adapted for 
design bedding — such as the circular bed illus- 
trated at the left. 
Effective Ribbon 
Bedding 
The above illustrates a 
very effective example of 
"ribbon bedding” on a 
sloping lawn, a position 
well adapted to showing 
a pattern bed in its en- 
tirety. The circular de- 
sign is planted with 
double white Alyssum, 
Alternanthera nigra and 
A. aurea nana, the latter 
forming the center star. 
The ribbons are planted 
with double white Alys- 
sum, dwarf blue Agera- 
tum, and the red- and 
dark-leaved Alternan- 
theras. Other good com- 
binations could be made. 
