PREFACE 
Tue whole subject of Gardeh Design is so diverse and 
complicated that I must be pardoned for disclaiming any 
ideas of completeness for this small and unpretending 
book. To refer, however briefly, to the methods of 
different workers, and the varied effects obtained by 
them; or to present in detail the many phases of garden 
making as practised in England to-day, would necessitate 
not one volume, but several. 
If the reader’s object in perusing these pages is to 
find a model or plan which he may slavishly duplicate 
in his own garden, he will, I am afraid, search in vain. 
Garden ‘‘ design” is not of necessity formal, and sug- 
gestive though the name may be of set patterns and 
geometrical figures, more may be learnt concerning it 
in the woods and meadows of Nature than in all the 
musty volumes which line the shelves of the pro- 
fessional’s office. The pleasures of garden making are 
so real that each one should jealously guard for himself 
the privilege of being his own designer. 
It is with the idea of helping the novice to help 
himself that I ask his acceptance of whatever may be 
of value to him in “‘ The Book of Garden Design.” 
Cc. T. 
Woopsripce, Surroik, May 1904. 
