The Winning Designs 



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paths are not in themselves obtrusive, but are intro- 

 duced because they are requisite. The grouping of 

 the various trees and plants is devised with a sym- 

 pathetic interest in their harmony of association and a 

 consideration for future developments. I like the idea 

 of the entrance screening the view to the front door, 

 and also the little forecourt surrounded by a neat Box 

 hedge. I like, too, the idea of the Elm-tree, shadowed 

 somewhat under the branches of which the forecourt 

 would appear doubly inviting. Adequate seclusion is 

 provided everywhere, the seclusion of which one writer 

 has said : ' ' The garden was a place apart from the 

 world, where men could rest and take their ease in 

 quiet surroundings, the spot dedicated to wholesome 

 relaxation, in which the worker could for a while forget 

 his cares and renew his energies. Its privacy was one 

 of its greatest charms." And also another : " A still, 

 removed place hidden from the day's garish eye, 

 sacred to tranquillity, retirement, and repose." Per- 

 haps most of all I like the lawn with its informal group- 

 ings of trees, its Vines, Lilac, Halesia, and its slight 

 undulations and slopes, that bring forcibly to one's 

 mind the exquisite picture conjured up by Tennyson : 



" A realm of pleasure, many a mound, and many a shadow- 

 chequered lawn, full of the city's stilly sound." 



There are many other attractions in this and other 

 designs, but I think that this orchard lawn is the place 

 to which I should wander, whilst the dewdrops yet 

 sparkled in the grass, for the morning breath of air ; 

 again in the heat of noontide, when the shadows would 

 be infinitely pleasant ; and yet again at eventide, when 



