GARDEN DESIGN 



" Uncultivated Nature " 



Such views I have urged, and carry 

 them out when I can, in the hope of 

 bringing gardening into a line with art, 

 from which it is now so often divorced. 

 It is natural that these views should 

 meet with some opposition, and the 

 consideration of the Formal Garden gives 

 the opportunity of examining their value. 



The question, briefly stated, is this : Are we, in 

 laying out our gardens, to ignore the house, and to 

 reproduce uncultivated Nature to the best of our 

 ability in the garden ? Or are we to treat the 

 house and garden as inseparable factors in one 

 homogeneous whole, which are to co-operate for 

 one premeditated result ? 



No sane person has ever proposed to 

 ignore the house. So far from ignoring 



