PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



fill so fits into its surroundings that, however new it 

 may be, it will when completed look as if it not only 

 belonged there, but had always been there. There 

 is no better test than this of good and bad forms 

 of garden development. It means restfulness and 

 repose instead of the uneasiness of effect too fre- 

 quently encountered in the treatment of house sur- 

 roundings. 



While advocating the effect of restfulness, which 

 is secured only by appropriateness to surroundings 

 and by congruity of detail, it has seemed unwise in 

 the various chapters treating of distinct character- 

 istics of garden architecture to make repeated men- 

 tion of faults. The frequent warning against the 

 several offenses, never permissible though often en- 

 countered, has not appeared in each chapter ; there- 

 fore the author desires here to> sound emphatic warn- 

 ing against the most glaring of these offenses, those 

 of mixture of styles, mixture of materials, over- 

 crowding, and overloading. 



In the first offense the mixture of styles the 

 garden builder is cautioned against any form of gar- 

 den architecture which does not agree with the 

 architecture of the house, or with the general type 

 of neighboring properties the offense of mixing 

 Tudor houses and Greek temples, French chateaux 

 and Holland windmills, Swiss chalets and Japanese 



