GARDEN DESIGN 43 



"No Design in Landscape" 



Horticulture stands to garden design much as 

 building does to architecture. This book has 

 been written entirely from the standpoint of the 

 designer, and therefore contains little or no 

 reference to the actual methods of horticulture. 



Throughout the book it is modestly 

 assumed that there can be no " design " 

 in anything but in Hues of stone, and 

 clipped trees to " harmonise " with the 

 stone, and to bring in " order " and 

 " balance." A Longleat, Highclere 

 or Little Trianon, or any of the many 

 English places which are planted in 

 picturesque ways can show no design ; 

 but a French town, with its wretched 

 lines of tortured Limes, is " pure " and 

 " broad " in design. The naivete of 



