GARDEN DESIGN 2J 



dark rock -like feudal Berkeley is clad 

 with Fig and Vine and Rose as far as 

 they can reach. No trace in these old 

 gardens of the modern " landscape archi- 

 tect," who said, My walls are not made 

 for plants, and for my beds I prefer 

 coloured brick ! 



What, then, is the kind of " Formal 

 Gardening " that is bad ? It is the purely 

 formal or stone garden made for its own 

 sake, often without a shadow of excuse. 

 The garden of the Crystal Palace in 

 part ; the stone garden at the head of 

 the Serpentine ; Versailles ; the Grand y 

 Trianon ; Caserta, Schonbrunn are among 

 the public gardens of Europe where 

 this kind of garden is seen. Great 

 harm has come to many a fair English 

 lawn through this system. Let us learn 

 by one instance, easily seen, the harm 

 done in formal gardening, even where the 

 ground called for an amount of terracing 

 not usual in the plains and mostly gentle 



