Quiet and Restful Effects 
true gardener takes advantage of every inch of space, 
and a wall face can be just as beautiful as a garden. 
In such a place it would form part of the garden. 
Now, with regard to the approaches to, and the 
back gardens themselves ; undoubtedly the first-prize 
design (A) is the most successful treatment. Thuja 
Lobbi as a hedge is only justifiable when one wants 
quick growth, and if the adjoining cottage is as near 
the fence on its own side as the one in plan is, the 
‘* Wall Fruit ’’ would stand a very poor chance of suc- 
cess as it would be in the shade nearly all day. If, 
however, the house stands alone, and so is open to the 
sun on the south side, the walls could be put to many 
worse uses than growing Pears, Plums, or in favoured 
districts even Peaches or Apricots. In this case 
standard trained trees would be the best to plant, 
so that the fruiting branches are well up to the 
sunlight above the fence or hedge. One of the 
most pleasing features of this design is the splayed 
arrangement of the hedges dividing the front from the 
back, and shutting off the kitchen window in such a 
way that, although the kitchen is quite shut off from 
the garden, there is left open a view through the 
kitchen window on to the flower border that forms the 
most important feature in the garden itself. The 
effect of this garden would be quiet and restful. The 
flower borders facing south, and backed by an irregu- 
lar grouping of shrubs, that would serve pleasantly to 
obliterate the line of fence, and also to form a back- 
ground for the colour in the border, is capable of being 
made a distinctly good picture. Some simple and 
tasteful colour grouping, with a view to as continuous a 
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