10 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND i 



architecture in this description of landscape 

 gardening. Indeed, it is the object of the land- 

 scape gardener to exclude the architect from 

 the garden, for he feels, like Demetrius, the 

 silversmith, that his craft is in danger to be 

 set at naught ; and having succeeded in expelling 

 the architect a hundred and fifty years ago, he 

 is naturally unwilling to let him in again. Mr. 

 Milner does point out that the house should 

 stand on a terrace, but proceeds to stultify his 

 own admission by stating that the terrace 

 '' differs from the garden proper, which, though 

 fine in calculated detail of its plan, should 

 express by its breadth of treatment most un- 

 mistakably that nature has triumphed over art, 

 because art has subtly tutored the development 

 of nature," which, if it means anything, must 

 mean that when you enter the garden you are 

 to leave all thought of architecture behind you. 

 Thus, the substantial difference between the 

 two views of gardening is this. The formal 

 school insists upon design ; the house and the 

 grounds should be designed together and in 

 relation to each other ; no attempt should be 

 made to conceal the design of the garden, there 

 being no reason for doing so, but the bounding 

 lines, whether it is the garden wall or the lines 

 of paths and parterres, should be shown frankly 

 and unreservedly, and the garden will be 

 treated specifically as an enclosed space to be 

 laid out exactly as the designer pleases. The 



