GARDEN DESIGN 51 



If this park had been planted out with groves and 

 avenues of Limes, like the boulevard at Avallon, 

 or the squares at Vernon, or even like the east side 

 of Hyde Park between the Achilles statue and the 

 Marble Arch, at least one definite effect would 

 have been reached. There might have been shady- 

 walks, and noble walls of trees, instead of the 

 spasmodic futility of Battersea Park. 



Battersea Park, like many others, may 

 be capable of improvement ; but here 

 we have men who want to supplant its 

 lawns, grassy playgrounds, and pretty 

 retired gardens with Lime trees like 

 those of a French town, and lines and 

 squares of trees like those at Vernon, 

 which I once saw half bare of leaves 

 long before the summer was over ! 



The authors see with regret that the 

 good sense of planters has for many years 

 been gradually emancipated from the 

 style (as old as the Romans and older) of 

 planting in rows. It was the very early 

 and in a very real sense a barbarous way. 

 Since the days when country places were 



