220 GARDENS: THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



Palace as a suitable width, because it is wide enough to 

 allow of practical work being carried on. There should 

 besides this be easy cart-track access to the frame-ground 

 where all soils and manures are deposited, and also there 

 should be minor working paths, with bricks along the 

 centre of them, for wheelbarrows to run easily. 



The Great War has so altered our views in many 

 respects that whereas formerly the vegetable plot was one 

 which we hurried past, giving but a cursory glance at its 

 contents, we now desire to give it prominence. 



It is essential that every practical comfort, such as 

 ample water supply, a proper storage place for manures, 

 convenient sheds, bothies, outhouses, and stabling should 

 be within easy reach. Good workmen having suitable 

 tools to hand accomplish wonderful work in all professions, 

 but garden operations will drag on indefinitely if the men 

 are impeded by an indifferent provision of storage 

 accommodation. 



Let us, therefore, study "the tool and potting-sheds, 

 which are the heart of all," as carefully as we consider the 

 sheltered hedged-in garden or the surprise gardens that 

 are to give pleasure to our friends. The time has come 

 for great developments by means of horse-power, 

 machinery, and labour-saving inventions, so that this 

 twentieth century may see every inch of our private 

 kitchen-gardens yielding fruit crops. The Japanese view 

 the practical operations of mushroom-picking and shell- 

 gathering with the same refreshing sense of pleasure 

 which they bring to bear upon walking through an 

 orchard to admire the plum-tree in blossom, named by 

 them " the eldest brother of the hundred flowers." So, 

 likewise, should we bring interest to bear upon the 

 market-garden with its pony plough, the profitable goats 

 that help the gardener by eating down the long shrubbery 

 grass, and the many objects closely interwoven with the 



