"Many things difficult to design prove easy to per- 

 formance." — Samuel Johnson. 



CHAPTER III 



Designing a Garden 



GARDENS as we commonly know them are not 

 exalted to the dignity of being designed, for 

 garden is a term that is usually applied only to 

 that portion of the ground whereon vegetables 

 grow. But as a matter of fact it should not be 

 so limited, for rightly a garden is an inclosed 

 space planted with trees, fruits, flowers, or vege- 

 tables, or all four. So really the entire grounds 

 about a dwelling constitute its garden or gar- 

 dens; so it is as a garden that I am going to ask 

 you to think of them. It is these in their en- 

 tirety that are to be furnished with a design — 

 that is, that are to be planned and made orderly 

 and beautiful. And they must be considered as 

 a unit in order to accomplish this with the best 

 results. 



There must be no slipshod treatment any- 

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