The Winning Designs 
paths are not in themselves obtrusive, but are intro- 
duced because they are requisite. The grouping of 
the various trees and plants is devised with a sym- 
pathetic interest in their harmony of association and a 
consideration for future developments. I like the idea 
of the entrance screening the view to the front door, 
and also the little forecourt surrounded by a neat Box 
hedge. I like, too, the idea of the Elm-tree, shadowed 
somewhat under the branches of which the forecourt 
would appear doubly inviting. Adequate seclusion is 
provided everywhere, the seclusion of which one writer 
has said: ‘‘ The garden was a place apart from the 
world, where men could rest and take their ease in 
quiet surroundings, the spot dedicated to wholesome 
relaxation, in which the worker could for a while forget 
his cares and renew his energies. Its privacy was one 
of its greatest charms.’’ And also another: “‘A still, 
removed place hidden from the day’s garish eye, 
sacred to tranquillity, retirement, and repose.’’ Per- 
haps most of all I like the lawn with its informal group- 
ings of trees, its Vines, Lilac, Halesia, and its slight 
undulations and slopes, that bring forcibly to one’s 
mind the exquisite picture conjured up by Tennyson : 
‘A realm of pleasure, many a mound, and many a shadow- 
chequered lawn, full of the city’s stilly sound.” 
There are many other attractions in this and other 
designs, but I think that this orchard lawn is the place 
to which I should wander, whilst the dewdrops yet 
sparkled in the grass, for the morning breath of air ; 
again in the heat of noontide, when the shadows would 
be infinitely pleasant ; and yet again at eventide, when 
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