146 GARDEN DESIGN 



In public parks one sees fountains and their basins 

 carefully made of deliberately jagged stone blocks: 

 a structure that could look passable only amidst 

 the roughest surroundings, and rising from mown 

 grass or a made path it is singularly inappropriate. 

 Many objects, involving as much workmanship as 

 paths and laid lawns are proper to a garden, and 

 the same care should be given to them as to other 

 parts. Seats and shelters, gates, vases and pergolas 

 should be accessories and not principal objects. 

 The architect is inclined to design these and look 

 to the garden to display his work, but the garden 

 designer will aim for strong and simple structures 

 appropriate to their purpose, and not obtrusive. 



The garden treated in landscape style, with 

 curved paths and undulations, requires the very 

 plainest carpenter's work, and naturally straight 

 timber, such as larch, may be used in its rough state, 

 plain joints being used in putting pieces together. 

 A roof thatched with heather or straw is more 

 appropriate than tiles, but all should be neatly 

 finished. On the other hand in formal surround- 

 ings where paths are straight and flower beds pat- 

 terned, a garden-house would be more suitably 

 built of brick or stone, or of painted woodwork, 

 and repeat the architecture of the house. After 

 summer-houses the most elaborate structures re- 

 quired in gardens are bridges. If "rustic " work 

 is inappropriate for buildings how much worse is 

 it for bridges, whose chief characteristic should be 



