60 GARDEN DESIGN 



finance. A certain sum is put aside for the house 

 (and generally exceeded) while the garden is left 

 to chance, very often the owner thinking its 

 development will be an amusing hobby. There 

 is no reason why the garden should be laid out 

 in its entirety at once, but a proper plan ought to 

 be prepared simultaneously with that of the house, 

 and portions of it thoroughly well done as time 

 and money permit. The owner ought to name 

 the sum he is ready to spend on his garden, and 

 the designer can plan accordingly. 



ECONOMICS 



IT frequently happens that the cost of the house, 

 or other reasons, makes the immediate develop- 

 ment of the garden impossible. A full plan ought 

 still to be prepared. Nothing is so fatal to the 

 final coherency of the garden as to start " just 

 round the house " on no particular scheme. Paths 

 laid, and more especially trees planted, are hard 

 to displace, and one is frequently called in to con- 

 tinue the development of a garden which has 

 been begun without any idea of the whole, and 

 where the owner naturally dislikes the idea of 

 moving trees and shrubs which are beginning to 

 be established and make a show. From a well- 

 planned design portions of the garden may be laid 

 out year by year, and the satisfactory result is 

 obtained of a coherent whole, while the waste 

 of alterations is avoided. The undeveloped land 



