GARDEN DESIGN II 



the erection of a high wall would cut 

 off the landscape? Not a word about 

 the vast variety of such situations, each 

 of which would require to be treated 

 in a way quite different from the rest ! 

 There are many places in every county 

 that would be robbed of their best charms 

 by separating the garden from the adjacent 

 country by a " good high wall." 



The custom of planting avenues and cutting 

 straight lines through the woods surrounding the 

 house to radiate in all directions was a departure 

 from that strictly logical system which separated the 

 garden from the park, and left the latter to take 

 care of itself, a system which frankly subordinated 

 Nature to art within the garden wall, but in 

 return gave Nature an absolutely free hand outside 

 it. {The Formal Garden^ 



Nature an " absolutely free hand " ! 

 Imagine a great park or any part of an 

 estate being left to Nature with an 

 " absolutely free hand " ! If it were, in 

 a generation there would be very little 

 to see but the edge of the wood. Callous 



