Notes on Planning 



(not least) a hinterland where the untidiness inevitable 

 in gardening may be screened from view of the house. 

 These features, however simple in themselves, need to 

 be rightly placed and co-ordinated to make an intel- 

 ligible whole. With a view to focusing the ideas of 

 those who are concerned with the little garden, our 

 contemporary, The Garden, has lately organized a 

 competition, and its results were published in The 

 Garden of October iyth. Garden designers, both 

 professional and amateur, were invited to prepare plan- 

 ning and planting schemes for four typical sites, rang- 

 ing from a narrow suburban plot, 40 feet wide, to a 

 triangular site of about half an acre. In each case the 

 plan of the house was shown so that the designer might 

 take into account such governing facts as access from 

 garden doors and views from windows. Some of the 

 prize-winners' designs are now reproduced in order to 

 show how the general rules laid down above may be 

 worked out in practice. 



Perhaps the most difficult problem was the narrow 

 suburban plot. Mr. A. Troyte Griffith won the first 

 prize for this because he did not attempt too much. 

 The notable feature of the design is the way in which 

 the kitchen window is screened from the little lawn by 

 the splayed hedge. Nevertheless, the servant's 

 pleasure has not been ignored, for she has an oblique 

 view on to the herbaceous border backed by shrubs on 

 the north side of the garden. From the garden door 

 of the living-room the owner looks across the grass to 

 the curved seat framed in a yew hedge, and behind this 

 is a little space for the untidinesses of a garden. 



Shapeliness and order have likewise governed Mr. 



