39° 



LANDSCAPE DESIGN 



in, 163; flower beds in, 177-79; according 

 to plant character, 179; significance of 

 statuary in, 211-12; as type of landscape 

 design, 232; 



design, 233-46: definition and use of 

 word, 233-34; esthetic characteristics, 

 234-37; inclosure, 234-35 ; plants in, 235- 

 36; unity of effect, 236; recognizably a 

 work of design, 236-37; formal and non- 

 formal arrangements, 237; ways of giving 

 a garden distinctiveness : topography, form, 

 season of greatest beauty, material, asso- 

 ciation, 237-39; choice of style, 239; com- 

 position and compositional elements, 239- 

 46; inclosure materials, 240-42; retaining 

 walls and banks, 240-41 ; high boundaries, 

 241 ; the house as part of garden boundary, 

 242; "floor" materials, 242-44; typical 

 compositional arrangements of the garden 

 floor, 243-44; objects marking points of 

 interest in the garden composition, 244-46 ; 

 suitability of diflferent objects to this pur- 

 pose, 245-46; 



the garden in the estate, 249 ; as aff^ect- 

 ing house location, 255 ; design as a unit 

 of the estate, 259-61 ; in apportionment of 

 estate area, 274; community gardens set 

 aside in land subdivision, 290; refs., 367, 

 373-76. See also Formal gardens 



Gardens, Public, carpet bedding in, 182; as 

 part of recreation system, 297 



Gardens, Reserve, in the estate, 265-66 



Gardens, Rock, 207; bridges in, 218 



Gardens, Vegetable, in the estate, 265-66 



Gardens, Wall, ref., 370 



Gardens, Water, ref., 370 



Gardens Old and New, ref., 375 



Garlands between posts, as boundary, 170 



Gartenkunst, Die, ref., 362 



Garzoni (Collodi), Villa, 41 ; illus., opp. 40 



Gate-lodges, 263-64 



Gates and gateways, illusion, 117; as elements 

 in landscape design, 209-10; in garden 

 design, 241, 245 ; from forecourt to service 

 court in the estate, 271 ; to large landscape 

 parks, 318. See also Entrance gates 



Gayety, a landscape effect, 82 



Gazebos, 196, 197, 262 



Gazing-globes, 210, 245, 262 



General plans, 345 



Generaliffe, 35; illus., opp. 36 



Genius, and esthetic analysis in design, 16; 



in choice of ideal in design, 28 

 Geniuses, as founders of artistic tradition, 26 

 " Geometrical " styles of landscape design, 34 

 Gerhard, W. P., ref., 381 

 Germany, Romantic landscape style in, 47; 



modern formal style of landscape design in, 



51-54; parks, note, 226; estates and gar- 

 dens, ref., 365, 375 

 Gibson, W., ref., 370 

 Gillett, H. P., ref., 381 

 Gilpin, Rev. William, ref., 370 

 Giovio, Villa, 41 

 Girardin, Rene Louis, Marquis de, note, 47; 



ref., 368 

 Githens, A. M., note, 194 

 Glades, composition of informal boundaries 



of, 167-70 

 Golf courses, in the large landscape park, 



305-6; ref., 376 

 Gothein, Marie Luise, ref., 365 

 Grading plans, 345; example, illus., following 



356 

 Granada, gardens, 35 

 " Grand style " (Le Notre), 33, 42-45 

 Grandeur, an effect sought in style of Le 



Notre, 42-44 ; in Romantic landscape style, 



46; a landscape effect, 79-81; in sequence 



of landscape effects, 85 

 Gravel, as material of roads and paths, 219, 



227-28 

 Gravetye Manor, illus., opp. 30 

 Great Britain, estates and gardens, refs., 375 

 Greenhouses, 264-65 



Gridiron street system, in land subdivision, 283 

 Grilles, as parapet, 200; design, 207-9; i" 



gates, 210 

 Grottoes, 213-14 

 Ground, natural forms, as basis of landscape 



character, 70; as elements in design, 130- 



50; Repton quotation, note, 143; refs., 369 

 Ground cover, in planting design, 182-83 

 Ground surface, minor modeling, 147-48; 



planting in relation to, 183-85; roads in 



relation to, 219-20. See also Topography 

 Groves, significance of statuary in, 211; on 



the estate, 268; in the large landscape 



park, 301-2 

 Gutters, 219-20, 228 



