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April 18, 1908. 
THE GARDENING WORLD , 
Useful Garden Plans 
For Flower Beds. 
(See also -pages 363 , 263 and 2 bq.) 
A SMALL SQUARE GARDEN. 
The accompanying plan shows what 
nay be done with a small square garden^ 
yhere beds of large size would be unsuit- 
ible. The circle appropriately fills the 
rentre, and the inner circle is meant to 
iuit some tall growing plant, such as a 
tandard or climbing Rose. The rest of 
hat bed might be filled with dwarf Rose 
lushes, preferably Hybrid Teas or Tea 
loses, which would give a succession dur- 
ng the greater part of summer. 
Two of the angular beds might be filled 
vith Ten-week Stocks and two of them 
rith China Asters. Golden Feather 
rould answer as an edging to all of these 
tngular beds. 
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DIAMOND PLAN OF BEDS- 
The plan in this instance gives a mix- 
ure of diamond-shaped beds and circles, 
t will be noticed that the diamond- 
haped beds are really a variation upon 
quare ones, and the circles may be con- 
•enientlv fitted in between. As these beds 
00k better when planted with one variety 
>f a kind, they may be made of very small 
size so as to be proportionate to a small 
lawn. The two circles in the centre may 
be filled with white Violas edged with 
blue Lobelias. The lower two diamond 
beds may be planted with blue Violas 
edged with white Lobelias. The middle 
pair of diamond beds may be filled with 
yellow Violas, not necessarily both of one 
variety if the planter has several yellows 
which he favours. The edging may con¬ 
sist of blue Lobelias. A very free flower¬ 
ing purple Viola is J. B. Riding, and this 
might be employed to fill the two top beds 
shown in the plan, but where some other 
dark coloured variety is the favourite it 
may be employed instead. By way of con¬ 
trast white Lobelias could be used here 
again, as they take up but little space. 
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A SCALLOPED BED. 
This may be regarded as a variation 
upon the circle. It could be filled with 
the. same plants as the star bed mentioned 
in another column, or if it is 6 ft. or 
8 ft. in diameter, another design for the 
sake of variation could be employed. 
A central plant to this bed would be ap¬ 
propriate and serve to break the monotony 
of flatness. Round this central plant a 
band of white Antirrhinums would be 
suitable. This could be followed by an¬ 
other band of yellow Antirrhinums oc¬ 
cupying the whole of the bed except the 
angles, leaving, of course, room for an 
edging as well. Two of the angles could 
be planted with dwarf Sweet Alyssum 
(Alvssum maritimum compactum). An¬ 
other two angles could be filled with some 
mauve variety of Viola, such as Maggie 
Mott. The remaining two could be filled 
with a rose or pink Viola. Whatever 
edging is employed it should be of a 
different colour from the flowers of either 
of these things already mentioned. It 
might be Golden Feather, golden Thyme 
or Echeveria secunda glauca. When 
carpet bedding was in vogue a large num¬ 
ber of plants were in existence suitable 
for making a yellow foliage edging. 
MODIFICATION OF SQUARE BEDS. 
The accompanying design is intended 
to show what variations may be made 
upon a formal square bed. They need 
not be two pair* of different kinds, but all 
may be of one pattern if the cultivator 
chooses. We have not stated any par¬ 
ticular size, because they are really in¬ 
tended to be fitted into lawns of varying 
sizes, so that the beds may be made in 
proportion to the size of the lawn. 
Two of these beds may be filled with 
China Pinks, either the typical Dianthus 
chinensis or the variety D.c. Heddewigii. 
Single or double varieties may also be 
employed, as the general aspect will be 
much the same, a blending of rich rose 
carmine and crimson colours. These two 
beds may be edged with blue Lobelias. 
The other two beds may be filled with 
Ten-week Stocks edged with Sweet Alys¬ 
sum (Alyssum maritimum). 
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A SUBSTITUTE FOR SQUARE BEDS 
IN DESIGN. 
Perhaps of all the forms of beds which 
are used in gardens the square is the 
least often employed. In villa gardens 
the circular bed is almost certain to be 
present. Indeed, it is tiresomely present 
and uniform in whole streets of gardens in 
many towns and even in country places. 
A Substitute for Square Beds in Design. 
