The Winning Designs 
all—and, personally, I should prefer the grass—it 
should be planted with something that affords a longer 
period of enjoyment, and might be with advantage 
devoted entirely to fragrant flowers. 
There are many attractive features in the design by 
Miss Leonard (C). A continuous path in place of the 
stepping-stones would be the best. Stepping-stones 
in grass or positions that are inclined to be moist are 
useful, and can be made ornamental. By the side of 
a house in the principal approach from front to back 
they would be awkward and unnecessary. This walk, 
however, with its Vine-covered fence on one side, the 
creeper-clad house on the other, and a wealth of pros- 
trate grey-leaved, many-hued creeping-plants, and 
summer and autumn flowering Asters, could be quite 
delightful. The whole arrangement of the back gar- 
den is carefully thought out. The drying-ground is, 
however, an introduction of which the wisdom, pos- 
sibly also the use, is doubtful. Too small for a drying- 
ground, it just spoils the garden by contracting its 
width. Miss Leonard’s planting ideas (upon which 
more is said in Chapter III.) are well worthy of 
attention. 
Mr. Paton, in design D, introduces some ideas 
worthy of a larger site. The small sunk garden could, 
under more favourable circumstances, be made quite 
attractive, with its retaining walls filled with small- 
habited trailing and creeping plants, such as Cam- 
panula garganica, the stonecrops, and others, and its 
simple stone steps ; but the effect in such a restricted 
area would be that of overcrowding. Leaving this 
feature out of the design, or replacing it with something 
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