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wet weather. Less complicated little formal 
gardens would have fewer of these faults. 
There might, for instance, be more grass with 
only one gravel path down the centre, and 
straight beds cut in the grass on either side, with 
an archway covered with roses or some other 
MY OWN SMALL FORMAL GARDEN 
creeper at either end of the path, to form 
an entrance; or there might be two paths 
crossing each other, with creepers on arches 
or stakes where the pathways joined, and 
many other plans in the same style might be 
chosen. 
My mother’s garden (see frontispiece) was a 
