GARDEN DESIGN 35 



" ALL OUR PATHS " ARE CROOKED ! 



For instance, because Nature is assumed never 

 to show straight lines, all paths are to be made 

 crooked ; because in a virgin forest there are no 

 paths at all, let us in our acre and a half of 

 garden make as little of the paths as possible. 

 Deception is a primary object of the landscape 

 gardener. (The Formal Garden.} 



This, too, in the face of the facts of 

 the case, of proof ready for the authors, 

 in gardens in every country, from Prospect 

 Park at Brooklyn to the English park 

 at Munich. The fact that the Phoenix 

 Park at Dublin is laid out in a fine, 

 picturesque way does not forbid a great 

 straight road through it a road finer 

 than in any strait-laced park in France. 

 The late Robert Marnock was the 



