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Title: Gardens, their form and design
Identifier: cu31924020602110 (find matches)
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Wolseley, Frances Garnet Wolseley, viscountess, 1872-
Subjects: Gardens
Publisher: London, E. Arnold
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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FORAVU. FLO\VER BEDS IN making use of the expression "formal" in connection with flower-beds, it is necessary to point out two things. The opinion of the writer is, that formality in a garden should only be found in the immediate neighbourhood of a house. When we get far from buildings and the straight lines which they bring with them, all hedges, paths, and flower- beds should assume irregular lines, so long as they are natural ones and in no sense exaggerated. For we have to guard as much against the circuitous and exaggeratedly deviating carriage drive as against the star-shaped, mosaic- planted flower-bed. Both are equally undesirable if in any sense overdone. They are sometimes allowable when carried out in moderation and placed in proper surround- ings. Even those who are strongly opposed to formality of any kind in a garden will agree that in the vicinity of a house, where the lines of necessity are straight and the walls are at right angles, it is more restful to have paths, hedges, and beds in accord with these lines. When pictures are hung upon a wall, we know that if all the frames follow one line the room is restful. So it is in a garden. The next point to consider is, that by a " formal flower- 38

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