The Lessons of the Competition 
approached the matter from quite different standpoints. 
One class concentrated their efforts on an arrangement 
of paths, fences, and a division of the area into spaces, 
each allotted for a specific purpose. Generally speak- 
ing, they failed to realize fully the fact that a garden 
is essentially a place wherein to grow things, and grow 
them in such a way that they shall fulfil Miss Jekyll’s 
ideal, to ‘‘form beautiful pictures in our gardens.’’ 
The danger in thus approaching the creation of a gar- 
den is that it attaches an infinite importance to the 
frame and ignores the picture. The tendency is to 
produce a garden which is a mere pattern, all design 
and no life, a stonemason’s tombstone rather than a 
Pygmalion’s Galatea. 
The other class looked on the problem from the 
opposite standpoint—namely, that, given certain pro- 
vision for growth and adequate planting schemes, little 
else mattered. These did not sufficiently realize that 
they had produced but a poor setting for their effects. 
In the result, whereas many plants may be well grown, 
they will never be seen to the best advantage, and in a 
small garden, in particular, a general sense of untidi- 
ness will always be in evidence. 
The duty of the judges, therefore, resolved itself 
largely into selecting those designs that most nearly 
attained to the ideal when judged from the standpoints 
the competitors had themselves taken. It will be seen 
from the published results that the balance was rather 
in favour of the first class. Due attention was, how- 
ever, paid to the second, so that adequate provision 
was made in the selected plans for successful cultiva- 
tion. It was felt that the making of the garden is in 
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