GARDEN DESIGN 33 



Paris, that I was struck with the sim- 

 plicity of the lawn and plan of the 

 garden there, and its fitness for a house 

 in a city. 



To support their idea that there is and 

 can be no natural school of landscape 

 gardening, the authors suppose what 

 does not exist, and describe 



A piece of ground laid out with a studied avoid- 

 ance of all order, all balance, all definite lines, and 

 the result a hopeless disagreement between the 

 house and its surroundings. This very effect can 

 be seen in the efforts of the landscape gardener, 

 and in old country houses, such as Barrington 

 Court, near Langport, where the gardens have 

 not been kept up. 



Here, instead of taking one of the 

 many good examples in Britain, they 

 take poor, beautiful old Barrington, now 

 an ill-kept farmhouse, with manure piled 

 against the walls and the ceiling of the 

 dining-room propped up with a Fir 

 pole ! The foolish proposition here laid 

 down, that, because a garden is pictur- 



