CHAPTER IV 



LAYING OUT THE GARDEN 



HE garden may be 

 in the front or the 

 back of the house or 

 at the side of it ; or if 

 none of these situations is 

 available it may be laid 

 out some distance away, 

 but should be connected with the house 

 by a direct path enclosed with a fence 

 or hedge, preferably a hedge. For, as a 

 garden is a part of the house, it should 

 be easily accessible from it at all times, 

 and should be visible from some of the 

 principal rooms. Then it may be en- 

 joyed on a rainy day or in Winter, or in 

 the early Springtime when frost is still 

 in the air but the tender green shoots of 

 the Iris are gently pushing through the 



ground, and Snowdrop and Crocus are 

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