APPENDIX 



PRACTICAL HINTS AS TO CONTRACTS OR 



AGREEMENTS INCIDENT TO THE LAYING OUT 



OF GARDENS 



THE laying out of a really nice garden being of 

 necessity an expensive and also an important 

 matter, it is desirable that there should be in every 

 case a clear and definite agreement as to the work. 



The neglect of this simple precaution may lead to 

 utterly unnecessary contention and to avoidable expense. 



In the absence of such an agreement questions may 

 arise, for instance, as to what the agreement really was, 

 what work was to be done, and at what price, what 

 variations and extras were agreed upon, and so on ad 

 infinitum. 



This will mean inevitably the introduction, on one side 

 or the other, of lawyers to settle the questions, and they, in 

 their professional, contentious capacity at all events, should 

 be barred out of gardens. If the following few simple 

 suggestions are borne in mind and acted upon by those 

 who contemplate the making or the altering of important 

 gardens, the work will be completed without hindrance. 



(i) First and foremost at the outset there should be a 

 simple, clear agreement in writing, showing in detail what 

 work is to be done and at what cost, and signed by the 

 gardener and the client before the work is actually 

 commenced. 



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