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GARDEN PLANNING 



hardly enters into the question. It is just as 

 easy, and just as difficult, to plan a large garden 

 as a small one. The same general principles 

 apply in both cases. It is largely a question 

 of scale. 



Gardens which are made haphazard are 

 rarely successful, yet the majority of small 

 gardens have been so made. The inference is 

 obvious. How often do we not see, from the 

 vantage point of some suburban railway line, 

 garden after garden in monotonous succession, 

 all planned to a common type. Some may be 

 neat and well kept, others neglected, but the 

 outlines are the same in all, probably conceived 

 and made by the speculative builder's fore- 

 man, whose knowledge and skill can hardly 

 be expected to rank high in this department 

 of his work. 



When the gardener himself has taken the 

 pains to model his garden to suit his own 

 views of what it should be, the result is more 

 often than not marred by mistakes which arise 

 from hastiness and an inadequate knowledge 

 of, or attention to, essentials. Possibly the 

 commonest error is to ignore aspect, planning 

 for symmetry, which is hardly ever consistent 



