GARDEN DESIGN 



to many, the banks about the head of 

 the lake in the Bois de Boulogne. These 

 lines are seen in all bad landscape work, 

 though with good workmen I find it is 

 as easy to form true and artistic lines as 

 false and ugly ones. Every landscape 

 painter or observer of landscape will 

 know what is meant here, though I fear 

 it is far beyond the limits of the ideas 

 of design held by the authors of the 

 Formal Garden. Also, that /every charm 

 of the flower gardenjnajr be_secured^ by 

 av&Tding wholly the knots and scrolls 

 which make all the_plants and flowers 

 of a garden, all its joy and life, subordinate 

 to the wretched conventional design in 

 which they are "set out." The true 

 way is the opposite. We should see 

 the flowers and feel the beauty of plant 

 forms, with only the simplest possible 

 plans to ensure good working, to secure 

 every scrap of turf wanted for play or 

 lawn, and for every enjoyment of a garden. \ 



