GARDEN DESIGN 13 



THE TRUE LANDSCAPE 



Mr. Blomfield writes nonsense, and 

 then attributes it to me 



that is to say, we go to Claude, and having 

 saturated our minds with his rocks and trees, we 

 return to Nature and try to worry her into a 

 resemblance to Claude. 



I am never concerned with Claude, 

 but seek the best expression I can secure 

 of our beautiful English real landscapes, 

 which are far finer than Claude's. At 

 least I never saw any painted landscape 

 like them say that from the Chestnut 

 Walk at Shrubland, looking over the 

 lovely Suffolk country. That is the 

 precious heritage we have to keep. And 

 that is where simple and picturesque 



