CHAPTER V 
THE WINNING DESIGNS CONSIDERED IN 
DETAIL (Continued) 
SitE No. 2: WITH SOME REMARKS ON 
HERBACEOUS BORDERS 
THE size and shape of this site offered much greater 
scope for garden design than did Site No. 1. It is 
curious, however, that there was little attempt to do 
more than maintain throughout the quadrangular 
form that the shape of the plot already provided. 
There was ample room here for some more liberal treat- 
ment than just following the lines of the fences. It 
would have been pleasant to have seen the formality 
that was imperative near the house merging into some- 
thing more nearly approaching Bacon’s conception 
of being ‘‘ framed to a natural wildness ’’ as the lines 
receded from the house. The first-prize design to 
some degree appreciates the desirability of this by the 
introduction of an orchard that would look in reality 
far less rigid and formal than it does in the plan. It is 
easy to imagine this recess in the garden as cool, 
shady, and delightful. 
In the spring, when, amongst the browns and greens 
of the treetrunks, the Snowdrop, Scilla, Crocus, and 
Daffodil would wake to life, and a golden carpet of 
Winter Aconite would spread itself over the ground ; or 
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