Miss JekylFs Ideal 



some respects more important than the planting, espe- 

 cially as the means of the owner were assumed to be 

 limited. Obviously, if mistakes are made anywhere, 

 a garden can be replanted with much greater ease 

 and less expense than it can be remade. Judged on 

 points, the planting schemes were inferior all round to 

 the work produced in designing. This is regrettable 

 but not surprising. It is far more difficult to produce 

 satisfactory planting plans than a design based on cer- 

 tain principles which, once grasped, reduce the task 

 to an arrangement of lines and curves, the effects of 

 which are tested in the development of the plan on 

 paper. 



Consider for a moment the really excellent design 

 produced by Mr. G. LI. Morris for Site No. 2. It is 

 easy to imagine some delightful effects in a garden 

 arranged on these lines, but it would have been inter- 

 esting to know exactly what he suggests should be 

 planted in a herb garden to which as much space is 

 devoted and into which as much design is introduced 

 as for the Rose garden in the same plan. His vision 

 of this little garden, with its seat placed to command 

 a view down through the orchard, where flowering 

 bulbs, such as Crocuses, Tulips, Daffodils, Snowdrops, 

 Scillas, etc., would doubtlessly be allowed to brighten 

 the earth in spring, was really that of a garden of 

 sweet-scented flowers and herbs, with Violets, Mignon- 

 ette, Lavender, Lemon Verbena, Night-scented Stock 

 and Tobacco plant, each in their season creating an 

 atmosphere redolent with garden perfumes. And then 

 Miss Leonard's borders (p. 32), seen from the drawing- 

 room and library. If she had prepared her planting 



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