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to the subject, that he says that the 

 landscape gardener's only notion is to 

 put Grass all around the house ! It 

 does not even occur to him that there 

 may be Grass on one side of a house 

 and gardens of various sorts at the others, 

 as at Goodwood, Shrubland, Knole, and 

 that a house may have at each side a 

 different expression of landscape garden- 

 ing ! 



He takes the English Flower Garden 

 as the expression of landscape garden- 

 ing practice ; whereas the book, in all 

 the parts that treat of design, is a 

 protest against the formation by land- 

 scape gardeners of costly things which 

 have nothing to do with gardening and* 

 nothing to do with true architecture. 

 The good architect is satisfied with 

 building a beautiful house, and that we 

 are all the happier for. But what we 

 have to deplore is that men who are not 

 really architects, who are not gardeners, 



