The Judges and their Task 



Thus each garden conception becomes an original 

 invention, and as such has something to teach. More- 

 over, it is not always possible to gather from the most 

 skilfully prepared drawings exactly the garden picture 

 the designer has in mind. He or she foresees the 

 simplest, crudest lines furnished with the growth of a 

 beautiful vegetation that those lines are intended to 

 display or enhance. 



In concluding these introductory notes, therefore, I 

 should like to say that whatever of criticism may be 

 passed on the various designs, it is submitted in the 

 interrogatory sense, and only intended to suggest, 

 ' Would not so-and-so have been better here ?" rather 

 than to insist that my own opinions are infallibly 

 correct. 



On the whole, the competition may be said to have 

 been eminently successful. The judges had the 

 arduous task of adjudicating between nearly 400 draw- 

 ings.* The opinions formed thereon at the time are 

 briefly expressed in the two following chapters. 



* The adjudication was undertaken by : 

 Mr. P. Morley Horder, F.R.I.B.A. 

 Mr. S. T. Wright, Superintendent R.H.S. Gardens at 



Wisley. 



The late Mr. F. W. Harvey, Editor of The Garden. 

 Mr. Lawrence Weaver, C.B.E., F.S.A., Hon. A.R.I.B.A. 

 Mr. George Dillistone, Landscape and Garden Architect. 



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