44 GARDEN PLANNING AND PLANTING 



away well behind the shrubs, quite a large portion of the garden 

 being thus of a utilitarian order ; fruit trees trained against the wesfc 

 wall will allow Gooseberries and small vegetables to be cultivated in 

 front : the summer-house is approached by a walk between hedges oil 

 Sweet Peas. Fruit trees on the east fence will gain plenty of sun- 

 shine, and Parsley. 



II I r _ 1 ^-^ ! { herbs, and vegetables 



may be sown in thei 

 same border. If a 

 lawn were especially 

 wished for the best 

 plan would be to give 

 up the vegetable plot 

 at the end to it, and 

 unite this to the grass 

 plot already existing, 

 doing away with the 

 belt of shrubs and the 

 intervening gravel path. 

 A rosery forms the at- 

 traction at the end of 

 the grass walk, and is 

 in full sunshine. 



Half Acre Gar- 

 dens. A delightful 

 flower garden can be 

 made out of half an 

 acre of land, and a 

 good number of fruit- 

 trees cultivated, if the 

 owner is willing to 

 grow no vegetables ex- 

 cept perhaps Climbing 



French Beans and Scarlet Runners up a sunny fence or some 

 arches near the kitchen entrance, and herbs and salading in 

 a similarly situated border. Fig. 1 shows a plan for a wide 

 sloping bit of ground : there is an original shaped terrace built 

 on th<3 round, with level grass plots next the house border. 

 If preferred these plots could be paved or tiled, which would give 

 more the usual terrace appearance, and along the stone railing 

 might be stone urns for plants, at intervals, or at the ends and 



FIG. 2. QUARTER ACRE GARDEN 



