The Winning Designs 



Brown surrendered unconditionally to the existing cir- 

 cumstances, and I think the general impression will be 

 that, despite the attraction of a shady walk round 

 under the fruit-trees, there are many ways in which 

 this area could have been utilized with results more 

 satisfactory to the garden lover generally, and into 

 which the fruit-trees could have been introduced quite 

 successfully. Of course, even arranged as shown in 

 the plan, a really gorgeous effect might be obtained 

 during April and May by lavishly planting Darwin and 

 cottage Tulips amongst the fruit-trees. 



It is perhaps a little curious that Mr. Kenneth 

 Dalgliesh (p. 73) should have developed a design in so 

 many respects similar to that just described. In this 

 case ample indeed, excessive width is allowed for a 

 drive approach to the front door ; but it is impossible 

 to achieve any arrangement whereby room could be 

 allowed for a carriage or motor-car to turn without 

 great trouble, and inasmuch as there is no provision 

 made for keeping even a pony on the premises, the 

 drive seems a little pretentious. Certainly this entrance 

 offers far less possibility for interesting planting than 

 Miss Brown's. Mr. Dalgliesh spends a considerable 

 amount of the money allowed in the conditions of the 

 competition in erecting a potting-shed that would be 

 hardly necessary to carry out the work of potting 

 plants, etc., in a garden in which the total area allotted 

 to glass structure is 15 feet by 8 feet. The screen of 

 fruit-trees on the road side is a good idea. I like the 

 little sunk rose garden, the result of fully appreciating 

 the slope in the ground, which all competitors did not 

 do, and its surroundings of trim hedges and herbaceous 



