The Winning Designs 
Brown surrendered unconditionally to the existing cir- 
cumstances, and I think the general impression will be 
that, despite the attraction of a shady walk round 
under the fruit-trees, there are many ways in which 
this area could have been utilized with results more 
satisfactory to the garden lover generally, and into 
which the fruit-trees could have been introduced quite 
successfully. Of course, even arranged as shown in 
the plan, a really gorgeous effect might be obtained 
during April and May by lavishly planting Darwin and 
cottage Tulips amongst the fruit-trees. 
It is perhaps a little curious that Mr. Kenneth 
Dalgliesh (p. 73) should have developed a design in so 
many respects similar to that just described. In this 
case ample—indeed, excessive—width is allowed for a 
drive approach to the front door ; but it is impossible 
to achieve any arrangement whereby room could be 
allowed for a carriage or motor-car to turn without 
great trouble, and inasmuch as there is no provision 
made for keeping even a pony on the premises, the 
drive seems a little pretentious. Certainly this entrance 
offers far less possibility for interesting planting than 
Miss Brown’s. Mr. Dalgliesh spends a considerable 
amount of the money allowed in the conditions of the 
competition in erecting a potting-shed that would be 
hardly necessary to carry out the work of potting 
plants, etc., in a garden in which the total area allotted 
to glass structure is 15 feet by 8 feet. The screen of 
fruit-trees on the road side is a good idea. I like the 
little sunk rose garden, the result of fully appreciating 
the slope in the ground, which all competitors did not 
do, and its surroundings of trim hedges and herbaceous 
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