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simpler, the remainder offers little to comment on. 

 The path arrangement, though it appears to be quite 

 liberal enough, has certainly the advantage of being 

 continuous right round the house. 



Miss Cory's design (E) is a garden for one effect, 

 that obtained from the drawing-room, and as such it is 

 very good except that it would be necessary to con- 

 trive that the view from the drawing-room window did 

 not look directly on to the end of the line of standard 

 Roses. A little reconsideration of the areas would soon 

 put this right. 



Miss Isobel Harding 's design (F) is an example of 

 using paths to create design. This is a procedure that 

 I think is often carried to an extreme. The paths 

 should be what are necessary, but never used purely 

 as ornament. I hardly think the little paths at right 

 angles to the centre in this plan serve any good pur- 

 pose, and the garden would be better without them. 

 A frame is placed in this and most of the other designs 

 upon which I have commented. If these are intro- 

 duced it should be remembered that they are useless in 

 the shade, a point that several competitors have over- 

 looked. 



A word or two about ornaments used in these small 

 gardens. They should never be obtrusively florid in 

 design. They should look part of the garden, be as 

 simple as possible, and not have the appearance of 

 being as expensive as all the rest of the garden put 

 together. Remember they are used as ornaments to 

 the garden, and the note they strike should be sub- 

 sidiary to the general scheme. If they can be made 

 to serve the useful purpose of growing flowers 



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