Fonnal Design m Landscape Architecture 



A Statement of Principles with Special Reference 

 to Their Present Use in America 



By FRANK A. WAUGH 



Professor of Landscape Gardening at the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College 



There was formerly a prejudice in America against 

 the formal style of landscape architecture. This preju- 

 dice was due to misunderstanding and has now been 

 largely abated. As long as anyone was trying to copy 

 the French and Italian gardens in America the proceed- 

 ing was ridiculous and doomed to failure. But now the 

 best landscape architects and amateurs are trying, not to 

 make copies, but to use the same principles and to 

 develop the same critical taste which guided the ancient 

 artists. The present book sums up the whole matter from 

 this point of view. 



Instead of developing these underlying principles from 

 the ancient authorities, this book begins from the stand- 

 point of practical problems in America and shows how 

 the direct solution of such problems leads to the same 

 results. The book is simple, direct and of immediate 

 value in the daily work of the amateiir gardener, the 

 professional landscape architect, the nurseryman, the 

 park superintendent and everyone concerned in the mak- 

 ing of parks and gardens. 



The list of chapters is as follows: 



PREFACE 



1. Formal Design 



2. The Rectangnlar Garden 



3. The Domestic Formula 



4. Radial Design 

 6. Spirit and Motive 



6. Treatment of the Land 



7. Enclosure 



8. Walks and Pavings Index 



It is amply illustrated from American examples. 

 Beautifully bound in substitute leather, 250 pages, boxed 

 ^.50. 



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 15 E. 26th Street, New York City 



