Pictures from Living-Rooms 
G. LI. Morris’s scheme for a small L-shaped garden, 
such as is sometimes found in a suburb when an 
enthusiastic gardener secures the lower half of his 
neighbour’s plot. He has secured a notable diversity 
of views. From the drawing-room garden door there 
is a definite picture across the rose garden and sunk 
lawn to the herb garden. From the drawing-room the 
near pergola invites a walk along the paved path to 
another pergola finishing in an arbour. The fruit and 
vegetable garden in the short arm of the L is cut off 
by a hedge, in the curved bays of which there are 
archways from herb garden to orchard and from sunk 
lawn to kitchen beds. Other charming little features 
are the narrow flower garden to the south of the house, 
and the long flower border appropriately stretching 
from the tradesmen’s entrance to the kitchen garden. 
The almost square garden of about a third of an 
acre was designed by Mr. K. Dalgliesh and shows the 
tennis-lawn rightly placed north and south. Here 
again a picture is seen from each of the living-rooms, 
in spite of the fact that the lawn takes up so much 
space that other features have to be compressed. 
The triangular site of about half an acre set at the 
junction of two roads gave ample opportunity for 
ingenious contrivance. The plan on page 22 by 
Mr. A. Troyte Griffith shows a reasonable use 
of that overdone feature, the pergola, a good aid 
to garden design if sensibly placed, but this is not 
often. Here it leads from the corner of the terrace to 
a garden house, and usefully divides the tennis-lawn 
from the flower garden. Miss Isobel Harding’s design 
(p. 32) is a little disappointing, for the very reason that 
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