GARDEN DESIGN 37 



knowledge of gardens would show that 

 walks like threads are no necessary part 

 of landscape gardening ! 



This error shows well the effect of 

 men reading and writing about what 

 they have not seen. 



The axiom on which landscape 

 gardening rests is declared by Messrs. 

 Blomfield and Thomas to be 



Whatever Nature does is right ; therefore let us go 

 and copy her (p. 5). 



Here is a poor sneer at true art, not 

 only at art in landscape gardening, but 

 in all the fine arts. The central and 

 essential idea of the landscape art is 

 choice of what is beautiful not taking 

 the salt waste in Utah, or a field of 

 weeds, or a Welsh slope of decayed 

 slate, or the bog of Allen, or the 

 thousand other things in Nature that 

 are monotonous or dull to us, even 

 though here and there beautiful as a 

 wide bog may be. We can have in a 



