The Judges and their Task 
Thus each garden conception becomes an original 
invention, and as such has something to teach. More- 
over, it is not always possible to gather from the most 
skilfully prepared drawings exactly the garden picture 
the designer has in mind. He or she foresees the 
simplest, crudest lines furnished with the growth of a 
beautiful vegetation that those lines are intended to 
display or enhance. 
In concluding these introductory notes, therefore, I 
should like to say that whatever of criticism may be 
passed on the various designs, it is submitted in the 
interrogatory sense, and only intended to suggest, 
‘* Would not so-and-so have been better here ?’’ rather 
than to insist that my own opinions are infallibly 
correct. 
On the whole, the competition may be said to have 
been eminently successful. The judges had the 
arduous task of adjudicating between nearly 400 draw- 
ings.* The opinions formed thereon at the time are 
briefly expressed in the two following chapters. 
* The adjudication was undertaken by :— 
Mr. P. Morley Horder, F.R.1.B.A. 
Mr. S. T. Wright, Superintendent R.H.S. Gardens at 
Wisley. 
The late Mr. F. W. Harvey, Editor of The Garden. 
Mr. Lawrence Weaver, C.B.E., F.S.A., Hon. A.R.I.B.A. 
Mr, George Dillistone, Landscape and Garden Architect. 
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