14 GARDEN DESIGN 



gardening will help us by making the 

 garden a beautiful foreground for the 

 true landscape, instead of cutting it off 

 with a " high wall " or anything else 

 that is ugly and needless. 



The lawns are not to be left in broad expanse, 

 but to have Pampas Grasses, foreign shrubs, etc., 

 dotted about on the surface. 



I have fought for years against' the 

 lawn-destruction by the terrace-builders 

 and bedding-out gardeners ! But how are 

 we to have our lawns in "broad expanse" 

 if we build a high wall near the house 

 to cut off even the possibility of a lawn ? 

 This has been done in too many cases 

 > to the ruin of all good effect and repose, 

 often to shut out as good landscapes as 

 ever were painted ! There are flagrant 

 cases in point to be found in private 

 gardens in the suburbs of London. 

 There is much bad and ignorant land- 

 scape work as there is bad building 

 everywhere, but errors in that way are 



