MAKING THE GARDEN 5 



with the wisest and best of all authorities, 

 my master in garden craft and honoured 

 friend, the late G. F. Wilson, F.R.S., of 

 Weybridge. By return of post I received a 

 characteristic answer, " If you want to enjoy 

 your garden, take nobody's advice, and lay it 

 out exactly according to your own fancy." 

 This set me free. I have closely adhered to 

 this wise counsel ; and thereby, if I have 

 annoyed some of my over-wise neighbours, I 

 have certainly, in spite of mistakes, given 

 myself a great deal of pleasure. 



I confess to a passion for straight lines ; and 

 in the gradual growth of the garden that 

 passion has found scope and gratification. 

 There is only one curved corner in the whole 

 place ; and that was a necessity, to enable me 

 to work in a straight walk with the outer 

 hedge on the west, which is as much out of 

 the parallel with the rest of the garden as 

 Visconti found the Rue de Rivoli with the 

 Louvre of Henry IV. One round Rose bed 

 was cut out in the Rose garden last year to 

 be followed in course of time by two others in 



