Useless Paths 
simpler, the remainder offers little to comment on. 
The path arrangement, though it appears to be quite 
liberal enough, has certainly the advantage of being 
continuous right round the house. 
Miss Cory’s design (E) is a garden for one effect, 
that obtained from the drawing-room, and as such it is 
very good except that it would be necessary to con- 
trive that the view from the drawing-room window did 
not look directly on to the end of the line of standard 
Roses. A little reconsideration of the areas would soon 
put this right. 
Miss Isobel Harding’s design (F) is an example of 
using paths to create design. This is a procedure that 
I think is often carried to an extreme. The paths 
should be what are necessary, but never used purely 
as ornament. I hardly think the little paths at right 
angles to the centre in this plan serve any good pur- 
pose, and the garden would be better without them. 
A frame is placed in this and most of the other designs 
upon which I have commented. If these are intro- 
duced it should be remembered that they are useless in 
the shade, a point that several competitors have over- 
looked.., 
A word or two about ornaments used in these small 
gardens. They should never be obtrusively florid in 
design. They should look part of the garden, be as 
simple as possible, and not have the appearance of 
being as expensive as all the rest of the garden put 
together. Remember they are used as ornaments to 
the garden, and the note they strike should be sub- 
sidiary to the general scheme. If they can be made 
to serve the useful purpose of growing flowers 
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