26 GARDEN DESIGN 



to some that this pounded brick and 

 tile in lieu of colours has frequently been 

 laid down in flower-gardens in our own 

 day. To old gardens like Haddon and 

 Rockingham, in which the vegetation 

 about the house is perfectly free and 

 natural in form, the term " formal 

 gardening " is quite unfitted. 



But those who attack the old English formal 

 garden do not take the trouble to understand its 

 very considerable differences from the Continental 

 gardens of the same period. 



No one has " attacked " old English 

 gardens. Part of my work has been 

 to preserve much record of their beauty. 

 The necessary terraces round houses like 

 Haddon may be and are as beautiful as 

 any garden ever made by man. Can 

 anything be more unlike than the delicate 

 veil of beautiful climbers and flowers 

 over the grey walls of the courtyard at 

 Ightham Mote and the walls of some 

 gardens of our own day ? The great 



