Use of Ornaments 
borders are quite in keeping with the position thereof. 
The well-head is perhaps an extravagance that could 
be left out, or have something more typically English 
in its place. The use of elaborate well-heads in such 
small gardens is to be deprecated, because they intro- 
duce a note of opulence that the circumstances do not 
warrant, and as such are a little liable to create an 
effect of ostentatious display by using garden ornament 
for the sake of the ornament itself rather than for its 
desirability. A simply designed lead or stone vase 
filled with suitable vegetation would be far happier, 
and certainly more in harmony with its environments. 
On the whole, this design must be characterized as an 
architect’s garden. Not that this is by any means a 
fault, but just imagine it without its built effects and it 
will be seen at a glance that little is left. Such a 
design in the hands of a skilful gardener could un- 
doubtedly be made very charming indeed. There 
would appear to be rather a lavish provision for seats— 
two open air, one garden house, and a veranda in 
about 300 yards, although seats in a garden of even 
small dimensions are always desirable. It was per- 
mitted that competitors should introduce a tennis-court 
in this design, and Mr. Dalgliesh has done so in the 
only possible position. It is true that in doing so he 
has sacrificed all opportunity of doing anything in the 
nature of gardening on the eastern side of the house, 
but that is a fault of the site that he could not over- 
come. Most people would wish for a tennis-court in 
such a garden, and in this respect tennis is sometimes 
like new-laid eggs, and the choice is between a tennis- 
court (or fowls) and a garden. One thing is certainly 
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