DESIGN FOR GARDEN. 27 



CHAPTER VIII. 



DESIGN FOR GARDEN. 



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As this book is intended to comprehend all the wants 

 of a cottage or suburban garden, including flowers, fruits, 

 and vegetables, it would increase its size too much to 

 give a great variety of designs for the flower garden. 

 Those that require such should consult some intelli- 

 gent landscape gardener. Intelligent, I say, for nine 

 out of ten that pretend to be landscape gardeners are 

 not ; but consult a man able to draw a neat design, for 

 if he cannot do that he is not a very safe person to be 

 intrusted with the working out of the plan of another. 

 You are careful to ascertain that the architect for your 

 house is a man of education and intelligence before you 

 entrust yourself in his hands, but when it comes to de- 

 signing the lawn and flower grounds, the veriest bog- 

 trotter, who styles himself a "landscaper," is too often 

 allowed to display his "art," and at the same time make 

 you ridiculous. Rest assured that if such a pretender 

 has not had ambition enough to become fairly well in- 

 structed, he is not likely to show much taste in designing 

 your grounds. 



The design (fig. 6) shows an area of 200 feet by 350, or 

 a plot of nearly two acres. About one third of the whole 

 facing the street is used for flower garden and for dwell- 

 ing, the two-thirds in the rear for fruit and vegetable 

 grounds. There is a point in this sketch to which I 

 wish to call attention, as it is one too often lost sight of. 

 The flower garden and lawn face the street, while the 

 fruit and vegetable grounds are at the rear. The view of 

 these from the street is shut out upon one side by a 

 screen or tall hedge of evergreens, H, and upon the other 

 by a curvilinear glass structure, Q, which may be used 



