IO GARDEN DESIGN 



pleasure ground, places always the 

 object of a certain essential amount of 

 care even under the simplest and wisest 

 plans. If we wish to encourage " un- 

 cultivated Nature " it must surely be a 

 little further afield ! A wretched flower- 

 less pinched bedding plant and a great 

 yellow climbing Tea Rose are both 

 cultivated things, but what a vast 

 difference in their beauty ! There are 

 many kinds of " cultivated Nature," and 

 every degree of ugliness among them. 



Sir C. Barry's idea was that the garden was 

 gradually to become less and less formal till it melted 

 away into the park. Compromises such as these, 

 however, will be rejected by thoroughgoing ad- 

 herents of the formal gardens who hold that the 

 garden should be avowedly separated from the 

 adjacent country by a clean boundary line, a good 

 high wall for choice. (The Formal Garden?) 



Would any one put this high wall 

 in front of Gilbert White's house at 

 Selborne, or of Colder 's Hill at Hamp- 

 stead, or many English houses where 



