PLANTED TO LOOK LIKE THE NATURAL HILLSIDE. 



TH ERE is no doubt that we learn from our own many 

 mistakes, also sometimes from those which others 

 have made. As we call to mind what should not be 

 devised in the way of garden design, our thoughts go to a 

 type of house and garden often met with, which teaches 

 a lesson that should be impressed upon all who own 

 gardens the lesson that the advice and help of the expert, 

 a master of design, is to be sought when a place is 

 first laid out. Our mind-picture in this case represents 

 a square, glaring white, early-Victorian house, which in all 

 probability has a grey slate roof but, whatever be the 

 colour or material, the shape is flat and unsightly. 

 Unfortunately, the building stands upon the highest part 

 of garden ground and is therefore painfully conspicuous. 

 The garden should be lovely, for everything that 

 money can obtain is lavished upon it. The essential 

 thing, however, it lacks, a thing that cannot be bought, and 

 that is a connected idea of arrangement ; for even a novice 

 becomes quickly aware that it has been badly laid out. 



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