<j%uiet and Restful Effects 



true gardener takes advantage of every; inch of space, 

 and a wall face can be just as beautiful as a garden. 

 In such a place it would form part of the garden. 



Now, with regard to the approaches to, and the 

 back gardens themselves ; undoubtedly the first-prize 

 design (A) is the most successful treatment. Thuja 

 Lobbi as a hedge is only justifiable when one wants 

 quick growth, and if the adjoining cottage is as near 

 the fence on its own side as the one in plan is, the 

 ' ' Wall Fruit ' ' would stand a very poor chance of suc- 

 cess as it would be in the shade nearly all day. If, 

 however, the house stands alone, and so is open to the 

 sun on the south side, the walls could be put to many 

 worse uses than growing Pears, Plums, or in favoured 

 districts even Peaches or Apricots. In this case 

 standard trained trees would be the best to plant, 

 so that the fruiting branches are well up to the 

 sunlight above the fence or hedge. One of the 

 most pleasing features of this design is the splayed 

 arrangement of the hedges dividing the front from the 

 back, and shutting off the kitchen window in such a 

 way that, although the kitchen is quite shut off from 

 the garden, there is left open a view through the 

 kitchen window on to the flower border that forms the 

 most important feature in the garden itself. The 

 effect of this garden would be quiet and restful. The 

 flower borders facing south, and backed by an irregu- 

 lar grouping of shrubs, that would serve pleasantly to 

 obliterate the line of fence, and also to form a back- 

 ground for the colour in the border, is capable of being 

 made a distinctly good picture. Some simple and 

 tasteful colour grouping, with a view to as continuous a 



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