CHAPTER VI 



THE ARRANGEMENT OF A PLEASURE 

 GARDEN 



The Ground Work. 



IT may be well to preface the remarks under this heading 

 with a few words which should apply throughout this work. 

 The author has no particular garden or class of garden in 

 view, and since it is his earnest desire to aid all those who 

 are ambitious to make use of their facilities for gardening 

 to the fullest extent, he cannot confine himself to the 

 treatment of a small garden, nor of a large garden, but 

 must deal separately with the main features which are 

 likely to be incorporated in either. When the general 

 arrangement of the pleasure, the fruit, and the mixed 

 garden have been shown, the detailed construction of 

 paths, lawns, flower-beds, &c., will be dealt with, and the 

 remarks will then apply equally to all. Meanwhile let all 

 draw from this and the foregoing chapters whatever suits 

 their own individual case, and endeavour to put it into 

 practice. In laying out a pleasure garden, the aim should 

 be to interfere as little as possible with the general nature 

 of the ground. It is often possible to make a beautiful 

 pleasure ground without altering the form of the surface. 

 Certain it is that an undulating surface invariably com- 

 mands admiration, but where this does not naturally exist 

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