V 

 GARDEN BOUNDARIES 



Walls and Hedges 



THE main business of garden design has already 

 been defined as a skilful division into many 

 gardens. Just as a house requires several apart- 

 ments, and as its usefulness depends on a careful 

 disposition of its rooms and corridors, so a garden 

 demands separation into its manifold parts. It is in 

 the art of this division and subdivision that we must 

 bring the whole store of our knowledge and all the 

 resourcefulness of our invention, for an initial mis- 

 take may mar our later schemes, and to alter it later 

 will set back the garden development and bring dis- 

 appointment in its train. There is plenty of scope for 

 wide differences of taste in this matter, but even 

 those who desire the broadest garden landscape must 

 sketch in the structural lines of their picture with 



