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GARDEN PLANNING 



separate compartments, each to come into full 

 view only when it is entered. Passing down 

 between well-filled borders, we may thread a 

 pergola clustered with flowering climbers, to 

 reach an old-fashioned garden which, in turn, 

 leads to a shady grass plot, or, by another 

 flower-flanked path, to the vegetable garden. 

 Each section of the garden is complete in 

 itself yet wedded to its neighbour, each a 

 separate factor in the complete picture, and 

 all united in a consistent and harmonious 

 whole. 



The task of the designer does not stop at 

 this point. He has other factors to consider. 

 It is essential that the picture should not be 

 merely a group of closed-in compartments. 

 He must contrive a series of vistas, which, 

 whilst giving pleasant peeps from certain 

 points, convey a sense of space. In other 

 words, the treatment must include that artistic 

 quality known as "breadth." This is to be 

 attained in part by the opening up of vistas, 

 and in part by simplicity of character in the 

 principal details of the design. 



One frequently hears the term "a natural 

 garden." I may here state that a natural 



