Use of Ornaments 



borders are quite in keeping with the position thereof. 

 The well-head is perhaps an extravagance that could 

 be left out, or have something more typically English 

 in its place. The use of elaborate well-heads in such 

 small gardens is to be deprecated, because they intro- 

 duce a note of opulence that the circumstances do not 

 warrant, and as such are a little liable to create an 

 effect of ostentatious display by using garden ornament 

 for the sake of the ornament itself rather than for its 

 desirability. A simply designed lead or stone vase 

 filled with suitable vegetation would be far happier, 

 and certainly more in hajcmony with its environments. 

 On the whole, this design must be characterized as an 

 architect's garden. Not that this is by any means a 

 fault, but just imagine it without its built effects and it 

 will be seen at a glance that little is left. Such a 

 design in the hands of a skilful gardener could un- 

 doubtedly be made very charming indeed. There 

 would appear to be rather a lavish provision for seats 

 two open air, one garden house, and a veranda in 

 about 300 yards, although seats in a garden of even 

 small dimensions are always desirable. It was per- 

 mitted that competitors should introduce a tennis-court 

 in this design, and Mr. Dalgliesh has done so in the 

 only possible position. It is true that in doing so he 

 has sacrificed all opportunity of doing anything in the 

 nature of gardening on the eastern side of the house, 

 but that is a fault of the site that he could not over- 

 come. Most people would wish for a tennis-court in 

 such a garden, and in this respect tennis is sometimes 

 like new-laid eggs, and the choice is between a tennis- 

 court (or fowls) and a garden. One thing is certainly 

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