GARDEN DESIGN I3 



The True Landscape 



Mr. Blomfield writes nonsense, and 

 then attributes it to me — 



that is to say, we go to Claude, and having 

 saturated our minds with his rocks and trees, we 

 return to Nature and try to worry her into a 

 resemblance to Claude. 



I am never concerned with Claude, 

 but seek the best expression I can secure 

 of our beautiful English real landscapes, 

 which are far finer than Claude's. At 

 least I never saw any painted landscape 

 like them — say that from the Chestnut 

 Walk at Shrubland, looking over the 

 lovely Suffolk country. That is the 

 precious heritage we have to keep. And 

 that is where simple and picturesque 



