2 GARDEN DESIGN 



back from them. The views of old 

 writers will help us little, for a wholly 

 different state of things has arisen in 

 these mechanical days. My own view 

 is that we have never yet got from the 

 garden, and, above all, the home land- 

 scape, half the beauty which we may 

 get by abolishing the needless formality 

 and geometry which disfigure so many 

 gardens, both as regards plan and flower 

 planting. Formality is often essential 

 in the plan of a flower garden near a 

 house never as regards the arrangements 

 of its flowers or shrubs. To array these 

 in lines or rings or patterns can only be 

 ugly wherever done ! ^ 



That men have never yet generally 

 enjoyed the beauty that good garden 

 design may give is clear from the fact 

 that the painter is driven from the 

 garden ! The artist dislikes the common 

 garden with its formality and bedding ; 

 he cannot help hating it ! In a country 



