DESIGNING A GARDEN 33 
that. Not until all places, without exception, 
are enclosed completely — and have gates, too, 
at their entrances, not merely unprotected 
openings — will the instinct really to make gar- 
den awaken and really beautiful gardens ap- 
pear. 
With the border allowed for — mark off a 
space at least one foot wide all around for 
such allowance, wider if you purpose planting 
a hedge — the plan of the space enclosed by it 
is immediately before us. And here the per- 
sonal equation enters at once, large and in- 
fluential. People are divided, I find, into 
what I have secretly called orderly and dis- 
orderly in the matter of taste in gardens — • 
secretly because “ disorderly ” seems gen- 
erally to imply reproach, although I do not 
know that it does in this connection. In fact, 
the disorderly type commonly regard the 
orderly ones as offenders and apply the adjec- 
tive to them almost in the tone of an epithet. 
So it all depends really on the point of view; 
but after all, this is not pertinent to the ques- 
tion now and here involved. What matters 
here is the choice between regularity, sym- 
metry, formality if you will, and irregularity, 
complexity, unsymmetry, disorder in one sense 
— not actual untidiness but lack of arrange- 
