Miss Jekyll’s Ideal 
some respects more important than the planting, espe- 
cially as the means of the owner were assumed to be 
limited. Obviously, if mistakes are made anywhere, 
a garden can be replanted with much greater ease 
and less expense than it can be remade. Judged on 
points, the planting schemes were inferior all round to 
the work produced in designing. This is regrettable 
but not surprising. It is far more difficult to produce 
satisfactory planting plans than a design based on cer- 
tain principles which, once grasped, reduce the task 
to an arrangement of lines and curves, the effects of 
which are tested in the development of the plan on 
paper. 
Consider for a moment the really excellent design 
produced by Mr. G. LI. Morris for Site No. 2. It is 
easy to imagine some delightful effects in a garden 
arranged on these lines, but it would have been inter- 
esting to know exactly what he suggests should be 
planted in a herb garden to which as much space is 
devoted and into which as much design is introduced 
as for the Rose garden in the same plan. His vision 
of this little garden, with its seat placed to command 
a view down through the orchard, where flowering 
bulbs, such as Crocuses, Tulips, Daffodils, Snowdrops, 
Scillas, etc., would doubtlessly be allowed to brighten 
the earth in spring, was really that of a garden of 
sweet-scented flowers and herbs, with Violets, Mignon- 
ette, Lavender, Lemon Verbena, Night-scented Stock 
and Tobacco plant, each in their season creating an 
atmosphere redolent with garden perfumes. And then 
Miss Leonard’s borders (p. 32), seen from the drawing- 
room and library. If she had prepared her planting 
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