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February, 1911 



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Hints for Making a Garden Plan 



WHEN making your plan for next year's gar- 

 den remember that the picturesque charac- 

 ter of a garden may be marred as much by sins of 

 commission as by sins of omission. There are 

 gardens in which no expense has been spared to 

 ensure a splendid succession of bloom but which 

 have been utterly ru ned by the introduction of 

 garish and incongruous accessories. The smaller 

 the plot, the stronger, apparently, the temptation 

 to import these eyesores. The garden-maker 

 cannot be too watchful against the use of inhar- 

 monious features. Such accessories as summer- 

 houses, arches, pergolas, dials, and garden seats 

 should be designed to suit the garden, and their 

 details and mode of construction should be simple 

 and unostentatious. Paint should be used 

 sparingly if at all, and its color should be chosen 

 so as not to compete with the flowers. I have 

 seen a wide expanse of trellis painted canary- 

 yellow, which for crudity and ill-taste would be 

 hard to match, yet the perpetrator was content 

 to grow nasturtiums upon it! 



The so-called "rustic" work is rarely in good 

 taste. If the summer-house is to be decorated, 

 allow some pretty creeper to scramble over it, soft- 

 ening its outline and load it with bloom. 



Terra-cotta, china, and cast-iron vases are 

 generally out of scale in a small garden, and never 

 quite satisfactory unless associated with a terrace 

 wall or some similar structure. In most cases 

 their place could be advantageously filled by 

 stout oaken tubs. The gardener must be hope- 

 lessly depraved if he admit such objects as 

 minerals, mechanical models, and sea-shells into 

 his garden. 



Given discretion in excluding the inartistic and 

 incongruous, there may be still room for mistakes 

 in the use of garden accessories. They may be 

 selected so as not to be in proper scale with the 

 garden, or with that part of the garden in which 

 they are to be installed. Good proportion is largely 

 a matter of intuition, though a sense of fitness may 

 come from knowledge and good sense. The golden 

 rules are: Use before ornament; simplicity; ap- 

 propriateness; sound construction; scale. 



As every garden picture must have a focus, I 

 attach much value to the summer-house. It 

 makes a very natural terminal to the principal 

 path, and is therefore "led up to" in such a way 

 as to enhance its usefulness. Again, the pointed 

 roof is admirably adapted for constituting the 

 apex or summit of the garden picture. This 

 particularly applies to new gardens, before it is 

 possible to utilize the trees as conspicuous elements 

 in the picture. Make the summer-house weather- 

 proof, and place it so that its open side is in shade. 

 It is often feasible to so wed the kitchen garden 

 to the flower ground that it materially helps 

 the garden picture. In small gardens the apparent 

 size of the garden is reduced if the vegetable 

 ground is screened off. On the other hand, if 

 left in full view, it contrasts too conspicuously 

 with the flower ground. It is best to take both 

 factors into consideration when making the garden 

 design, and to blend the flower and kitchen garden. 

 In this way the garden vistas may be lengthened 

 without curtailing the vegetable space. 



There is only one other point to emphasize, and 

 that has reference to garden management rather 

 than to garden making. I refer to what some gar- 

 deners call "tidiness." The striving after a neat, 

 trim, and well-kept garden is apt to lead the gar- 

 dener into a ruthless trimming and pinching of 

 plants. It is one of the things which can be too 

 well done. The truly artistic garden is one in 

 which the plant has full scope to develop its char- 

 acter. It wants elbow-room, and has no respect 

 for artificial boundaries. It is a sin to curb and 

 mutilate a plant, because it pushes out its foliage 

 across the path. The occasional plant which 

 has more than repaid your care by exceeding its 

 neighbor in vigor of growth deserves encourage- 

 ment. Let it sprawl; it will soften the edge of 

 your border and redeem the straightness of its 

 line. 



And lastly, beware of the too liberal pruning 

 of trees and snrubs. To trim all trees to a uniform 

 shape is to destroy their individuality and charm, 

 and to introduce the very essence of formality 

 into the garden. W. S. Rogers. 



