46 GARDEN DESIGN 



No Grass in Landscape Gardening! 



The following glaring piece of injustice 

 is due to want of the most elementary 

 consideration of garden design : — 



Grass-work as an artistic quantity can hardly be 

 said to exist in landscape gardening. It is there 

 considered simply as so much background to be 

 broken up with shrubs and Pampas Grass and 

 irregular beds (p. 135). 



The opposite of this is the fact. Grass- 

 work as an " artistic quantity " did not 

 exist in anything like the same degree 

 before landscape gardening. One of the 

 faults of the formal style of gardening 

 still seen in France and Austria is that 

 there is little or no Grass. Compare the 

 Jardin des Plantes in Paris with the Pare 



