DESIGNS FOR FLOWER BEDS ON THE MARGIN OF PATHS, 
ground, and groups of beautiful shrubs forming a foil to borders of intensely 
interesting hardy flowers. This is as it should be. Is it not far more pleasing 
to stand at the window and to cast your eye upon the lovely turf, and then let 
it travel across its wide stretch of reposeful greenery to the borders filled with 
hardy flowers, and thence to the handsome trees and shrubs behind them, 
than to immediately gaze upon a blaze of colour and nothing of interest 
beyond ? 
We have said that the number of beds formed on lawns are considerably 
reduced, as compared with a decade or so ago; and so they are. Now they 
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