GARDEN DESIGN 



NATURAL AND TALSE LINES 



' After we have settled the essential 

 approaches, levels, and enclosures for 

 shelter, privacy, or dividing lines around 

 a house, the natural form or lines of 

 the earth herself are in nearly all cases 

 the best to follow, and in my work I 

 face any labour to get the ground back 

 into its natural level or fall where dis- 

 figured by ugly banks, lines, or angles. 



In the true Italian garden on the hills 

 we have to alter the natural line of the 

 earth or " terrace " it, because we cannot 

 otherwise cultivate the ground or move 

 at ease upon it. Such steep ground exists 

 in many countries, and where it does, a 

 like plan must be followed. The strictly 



