PREFACE 



THE whole subject of Garden Design is so diverse and 

 complicated that I must be pardoned for disclaiming any 

 ideas of completeness for this small and unpretending 

 book. To refer, however briefly, to the methods of 

 different workers, and the varied effects obtained by 

 them ; or to present in detail the many phases of garden 

 making as practised in England to-day, would necessitate 

 not one volume, but several. 



If the reader's object in perusing these pages is to 

 find a model or plan which he may slavishly duplicate 

 in his own garden, he will, I am afraid, search in vain. 

 Garden "design" is not of necessity formal, and sug- 

 gestive though the name may be of set patterns and 

 geometrical figures, more may be learnt concerning it 

 in the woods and meadows of Nature than in all the 

 musty volumes which line the shelves of the pro- 

 fessional's office. The pleasures of garden making are 

 so real that each one should jealously guard for himself 

 the privilege of being his own designer. 



It is with the idea of helping the novice to help 

 himself that I ask his acceptance of whatever may be 

 of value to him in " The Book of Garden Design." 



C. T. 



WOODBRIDGE, SUFFOLK, May 1904. 



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