Six Outstanding Points 
duct of a new social order. It is impossible to lay 
down neat rules for the planning and planting of a 
limited garden space, but there are six outstanding 
points which need to be borne steadily in mind. In 
planning it is important (1) to ensure that every part 
of the garden shall bear a definite relation to the house 
which it serves ; (2) that the design shall be essentially 
simple—t.e., that the space shall not be frittered away 
by multiplied features ; and (3) that the lines of these 
parts shall be so laid down that the whole shall achieve 
a definite shapeliness. The three points in planting 
are subordinate to the fact that the owner of a little 
garden can rarely devote either much money or con- 
siderable labour to its tending. He, nevertheless, 
should seek to secure (1) a sufficient rotation of flowers 
to ensure gaiety in the garden during spring and sum- 
mer and early autumn ; (2) as rich a pleasure in colour 
and scent as may be contrived with small expenditure ; 
and (3) some practical return for his labour in vege- 
tables and fruit. The very ease with which a garden 
may be altered for the better may prove a snare. What 
is easy to do is often left undone. The owner of a 
little plot, knowing well that his first mistakes can be 
blotted out in a year or two, rarely considers at the 
outset that the allied problems of planning and plant- 
ing must be considered as a whole. Blunders thus 
made are apt never to get corrected. Many of them 
would be avoided if it were generally appreciated that 
the whole garden scheme should be considered from 
the first in its relation to the house. However small 
the available space may be, it must be provided with 
certain elements—grass plots, flower-beds, paths, and 
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