CHAPTER IX 



THE MOELWYN GARDEN 



THERE is a garden I know, a little garden, too, in the 

 sense that it is not so large as some that have been dis- 

 cussed in these pages. In some few respects it per- 

 haps fails in those very things that I have said are 

 often essential to success. Indeed, it is a violation of 

 certain rules and theories. There is one thing, how- 

 ever, in which it succeeds, and that is in being beau- 

 tiful, and in showing the effects of incessant pains 

 taken and attention to the rectification of previous mis- 

 takes. It was to a very great extent the development 

 of circumstances rather than design. Starting with 

 the one definite idea that a tennis-court was required, 

 and that it must be placed in the only position in which 

 there was room for it, the garden may be said to have 

 grown up round the tennis-court. This is very often 

 the case in gardens of this size, and there is another 

 point of similarity between this and at least one of the 

 sites in the Garden Planning Competition i.e., No. 2. 

 The first plot of land purchased was only 35 feet wide 

 by 150 feet deep. On this the house was built. Later, 

 the two plots in Honeywood Road were added for the 

 purpose of extending the garden. Thus it will be seen 

 that a site very similar to No. 2 in the competition was 

 provided, and the photographs, showing what practice 

 has achieved, are valuable and interesting in giving a 

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