GARDEN DESIGN 



place he will seek anything but the 

 garden, but may, perhaps, be found near 

 a wild Rose tossing over the pigsty. 

 This dislike is natural and right, as from 

 most flojver ^ gardens, the possibility of 

 any beautiful result is shut outj Yet 

 the beautiful garden exists, and there are 

 numbers of cottage gardens in Surrey or 

 Kent that are as " paintable " as any bit 

 of pure landscape ! 



Why is the cottage garden often a 

 picture, and the gentleman's garden near, 

 wholly shut out of the realm of art, 

 a thing which an artist cannot look at 

 long ? It is the absence of pretentious 

 " plan " in the cottage garden which lets 

 the flowers tell their tale direct ; the 

 simple walks going where they are 

 wanted ; flowers not set in patterns ; 

 the walls and porch alive with flowers. 

 Can the gentleman's garden then, too, 

 be a picture ? Certainly ; the greater 

 the breadth and means the better the 



