28 GARDEN DESIGN 



lawns of England I mean the flower- 

 garden at Shrubland Park, laid out by 

 Sir Charles Barry, of which I have 

 recently altered the plan and which I 

 planted with graceful life where I found 

 bare walls. 



We will assume that the main terrace 

 lines here are right, as the place stands 

 on a bluff, and speak of a secondary evil 

 of this formal gardening, which arose, 

 I think, about the time Barry laid out 

 Shrubland. That was that the walls of 

 the house or garden were not to be 

 4 graced by plants, and that to secure 

 the keeping of the design, coloured 

 gravels were to take fhe place of 

 flowers. This rule, as is *well known, 

 has been carried out in many gardens 

 it was rigid here. I see it in some of 

 the new gardens, and in asking at Worth 

 Park why a long terra -cotta wall had 

 not climbers on it, was told the designer 

 would not allow it ! 



