back, passing through a kitchen garden, is an excellent one, greatly 

 enlarging the length of view of the pleasure garden, while occupying 

 only a relatively small area. It is also well in planning a garden to 

 provide a reserve space for cutting alone, of beds four feet, and paths two 

 feet wide, and of any length suitable for the supply required. This has 

 the advantage of leaving the kitchen garden unencumbered with any 

 flower-gardening, and therefore more easy to work. 



Such a long-shaped garden is also capable of various ways of treatment 

 as to its edge, which need not necessarily be an unbroken line. The 

 length of the border in question is perhaps a little too great. It might 

 be better, while keeping the effect of a quiet line, looking from end to 

 end, to have swung the edge of the border back in a segment of a circle 

 to a little more than half its depth, every few yards, in such a proportion 

 as a plan to scale would show to be right ; or to have treated it in some 

 one of the many possible ways of accentuation where the cross paths 

 occur that divide it into three lengths. The thinking out of these details 

 according to the conditions of the site, the combining of them into 

 designs that shall add to its beauty, and the actual working of them, the 

 mind meanwhile picturing the effect in advance — these are some of the 

 most interesting and enlivening of the many kinds of happiness that a 

 garden gives. 



Be it large or small there is always scope for inventive ability ; either 

 for the bettering of something or for the casting of some detail into a 

 more desirable form. Every year brings some new need ; in supplying 

 it fresh experience is gained, and with this an increasing power of adapting 

 simple means to such ends as may be easily devised to the advancement 

 of the garden's beauty. 



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