CHAPTER IX 
THE MOELWYN GARDEN 
THERE is a garden I know, a little garden, too, in the 
sense that it is not so large as some that have been dis- 
cussed in these pages. In some few respects it per- 
haps fails in those very things that I have said are 
often essential to success. Indeed, it is a violation of 
certain rules and theories. There is one thing, how- 
ever, in which it succeeds, and that is in being beau- 
tiful, and in showing the effects of incessant pains 
taken and attention to the rectification of previous mis- 
takes. It was to a very great extent the development 
of circumstances rather than design. Starting with 
the one definite idea that a tennis-court was required, 
and that it must be placed in the only position in which 
there was room for it, the garden may be said to have 
grown up round the tennis-court. This is very often 
the case in gardens of this size, and there is another 
point of similarity between this and at least one of the 
sites in the Garden Planning Competition—1.e., No. 2. 
The first plot of land purchased was only 35 feet wide 
by 150 feet deep. On this the house was built. Later, 
the two plots in Honeywood Road were added for the 
purpose of extending the garden. Thus it will be seen 
that a site very similar to No. 2 in the competition was 
provided, and the photographs, showing what practice 
has achieved, are valuable and interesting in giving a 
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