GARDEN DESIGN 219 



do for a man and for his home. Nevertheless, an 

 intelligent interest in gardens is daily growing 

 stronger, and our gardens are not so few and far 

 between or as unfortunately conceived as they 

 were a few years ago. 



Of course a garden may have a more or less pub- 

 lic side, but if it is privately owned and possesses 

 no privacy, a great chance for enjoyment and even 

 for beauty of design is lost. 



Garden design is one of the most interesting 

 phases of landscape work, because it combines 

 many features found separately in other fields of 

 landscape design. The garden should be an inti- 

 mate sort of thing, shutting one in more or less, 

 and centralizing one's interest in the things which 

 it contains. As already mentioned, there should 

 be more privacy in a garden than in any other part 

 of the estate. It may sometimes be used as an 

 out-door room (Fig. 52), and in many cases where 

 the climate permits a great deal of time is spent in 

 the garden rather than in the house. 



The great prevalence of gardens in England 

 seems to be in the face of climatic conditions, so 

 far as occupying them is concerned, but the enor- 

 mous amount of wet weather is so well suited to 

 the growing of all sorts of garden planting ma- 



