Notes on Planning 
(not least) a hinterland where the untidiness inevitable 
in gardening may be screened from view of the house. 
These features, however simple in themselves, need to 
be rightly placed and co-ordinated to make an intel- 
ligible whole. With a view to focusing the ideas of 
those who are concerned with the little garden, our 
contemporary, The Garden, has lately organized a 
competition, and its results were published in The 
Garden of October 17th. Garden designers, both 
professional and amateur, were invited to prepare plan- 
ning and planting schemes for four typical sites, rang- 
ing from a narrow suburban plot, 40 feet wide, to a 
triangular site of about half an acre. In each case the 
plan of the house was shown so that the designer might 
take into account such governing facts as access from 
garden doors and views from windows. Some of the 
prize-winners’ designs are now reproduced in order to 
show how the general rules laid down above may be 
worked out in practice. 
Perhaps the most difficult problem was the narrow 
suburban plot. Mr. A. Troyte Griffith won the first 
prize for this because he did not attempt too much. 
The notable feature of the design is the way in which 
the kitchen window is screened from the little lawn by 
the splayed hedge. Nevertheless, the servant’s 
pleasure has not been ignored, for she has an oblique 
view on to the herbaceous border backed by shrubs on 
the north side of the garden. From the garden door 
of the living-room the owner looks across the grass to 
the curved seat framed in a yew hedge, and behind this 
is a little space for the untidinesses of a garden. 
Shapeliness and order have likewise governed Mr. 
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