202 GARDENS: THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



in old books or submitted by the men of to-day. We have 

 to keep in mind that the designer is anxious to please 

 in some way or other, and therefore he is apt to crowd 

 into one sketch or plan a great many ideas, hoping that 



FIG. 118. 



one or two of them at least may find favour with the 

 future employer. Thus in Fig. 1 18 we must not take for 

 granted that all the detail there included would look well. 

 The main ideas, however, are typical of taste about the 

 time of William and Mary. Evidently this garden-seat 

 was intended for two purposes to form a feature at the 



