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thoroughly competent in this extensive subject ? We must 

 confess that at the moment there appears to be no other 

 course than apprenticeship to one of the comparatively few 

 masters of the Art. The only addition to this would be 

 the knowledge of practical work to be attained by spending 

 two years in a large private garden or a horticultural 

 college. 



Is it not to be hoped that in the years that lie before us 

 some well-endowed College of Garden Design may be 

 founded? The instruction there given would comprise 

 town-planning, garden-cities, as well as the lay-out of 

 ornamental public and private parks and gardens. 



There is so much that could thereby be done to 

 improve the level of public taste, if public grounds were 

 laid out with care and restraint. It would seem that if 

 such a branch of learning were more developed, it would 

 not alone benefit the scholars, but the general public, too, 

 would gain thereby. 



It has been my endeavour in these brief notes to give 

 an outline of the delightful, all-engrossing work which 

 lies extended before the garden-lover. Whatever the 

 branch is that is taken up, whether it be advisory work 

 for private gardens, jobbing gardening, or the larger scope 

 of laying out public parks and gardens, the professional 

 has to be fully equipped with business habits, and 

 intelligence in book-keeping. This, together with the 

 power of making estimates of material and labour needed, 

 is a branch of study in itself. The scope of this book 

 includes only other more imaginative work in garden- 

 making. 



One or two suggestions, however, for the general benefit 

 of lady gardeners other than my own trained students, I 

 wish to take this opportunity of making known. They 

 are the outcome of personal experience, and it is hoped 

 they will be found to give a means for satisfactory 



