50 GARDEN DESIGN 



"Improving" Battersea Park! 



Perhaps after the cemetery, the ugliest 

 things in the fair land of France are the 

 ugly old lines of clipped Limes which 

 deface many French towns. Readers 

 who have not seen these things can have 

 no idea of their abominable hardness 

 and ugliness, the natural form of the 

 trees being destroyed, and deformed and 

 hideous trees resulting from constant 

 clipping. These gouty lines of clipped 

 trees are praised as " noble walls " " pure 

 and broad " in design, while 



Such a place, for instance, as Battersea Park is 

 like a bad piece of architecture, full of details 

 which stultify each other. The only good point 

 in it is the one avenue, and this leads to nowhere. 



