GARDEN DESIGN 21 



quality of fruit and vegetable food is a matter of 

 general welfare, and when, in addition to this, 

 there are further aims, such as making village life 

 more useful and less monotonous, preventing money 

 that rightly belongs to the grower from being 

 wasted upon transit charges and commission, and 

 securing freshly-picked and strengthening vege- 

 table food for the town-dweller, the wide outlook 

 of Gardencraft must be clearly evident to all. 



Then, again, little pictures of old-fashioned gar- 

 dens with which the office walls are decorated recall 

 many quaint ideas that can be gleaned from old 

 books and missals. All these, if carefully studied 

 and reproduced near suitable architectural sur- 

 roundings of the same date or style, belong to the 

 fine art which is called Garden Design. This is 

 most distinctly a branch that ladies should excel in, 

 for even if at the outset they feel incapable of 

 picturing how a flat field can speedily be con- 

 verted into a hedged-in, sunk nosegay garden, they 

 soon will learn to exercise their imagination in this 

 respect. 



One of our patrons, who is known by the appreci- 

 ative name of " The Pearl " amongst an admiring 

 band of students, has presented to the college a 

 collection of drawings of Fairy Gardens. Ideas for 

 these have been gleaned from long study of vellum- 

 bound volumes and old paintings ; the stateliness 

 of Versailles with its tapis vert and the water 

 gardens of Chantilly are also reflected in them. 

 Here we find treillage bowers, arbours, galleries of 

 woodwork for creepers to clamber over, formal 

 gardens in which Italian oil-jars or terra-cotta bowls 





