The Winning Designs 



all and, personally, I should prefer the grass it 

 should be planted with something that affords a longer 

 period of enjoyment, and might be with advantage 

 devoted entirely to fragrant flowers. 



There are many attractive features in the design by 

 Miss Leonard (C). A continuous path in place of the 

 stepping-stones would be the best. Stepping-stones 

 in grass or positions that are inclined to be moist are 

 useful, and can be made ornamental. By the side of 

 a house in the principal approach from front to back 

 they would be awkward and unnecessary. This walk, 

 however, with its Vine-covered fence on one side, the 

 creeper-clad house on the other, and a wealth of pros- 

 trate grey-leaved, many-hued creeping-plants, and 

 summer and autumn flowering Asters, could be quite 

 delightful. The whole arrangement of the back gar- 

 den is carefully thought out. The drying-ground is, 

 however, an introduction of which the wisdom, pos- 

 sibly also the use, is doubtful. Too small for a drying- 

 ground, it just spoils the garden by contracting its 

 width. Miss Leonard's planting ideas (upon which 

 more is said in Chapter III.) are well worthy of 

 attention. 



Mr. Paton, in design D, introduces some ideas 

 worthy of a larger site. The small sunk garden could, 

 under more favourable circumstances, be made quite 

 attractive, with its retaining walls filled with small- 

 habited trailing and creeping plants, such as Cam- 

 panula garganica, the stonecrops, and others, and its 

 simple stone steps ; but the effect in such a restricted 

 area would be that of overcrowding. Leaving this 

 feature out of the design, or replacing it with something 



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