20 GARDEN DESIGN 



Time and Gardens 



Not one word of the swift worker. 

 Time ! Its effect on gardens is one of 

 the first considerations. Fortress-town, 

 castle, and moat all without further use ! 

 In old days gardens had to be set within 

 the walls ; hence, formal in outline, 

 though often charming inside. To 

 keep all that remains of such should be 

 our first care ; never to imitate them 

 now ! Many old gardens of this sort 

 that remain to us are far more beautiful 

 than the modern formal gardening, 

 which by a strange perversity has been 

 kept naked of plants or flower life ! 

 When safety came from civil war, then 

 came to us the often beautiful Eliza- 



